Date: Fri Jul 27 2007 - 15:44:17 EDT
Michael said: * I don't see design and evolution in contradiction but I
would want to ask why God designed the Ebola virus.
*
Do you think the Ebola virus is "evil?" Or is the "evil" the suffering it
causes in people? If the evil is the latter, maybe the better question is,
"why doesn't God enable people to develop the technology to prevent people
from being infected and/or affected by the Ebola virus?" Reframed that way,
maybe some of the traditional Christian theodicies provide more meaningful
answers. What technologies would humans have been able to develop if human
society had proceeded in perfect fellowship with God and among people -- i.e.,
if we had not sinned?
On 7/27/07, Michael Roberts <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Peter
>
> That doesn't seem to be on conservapedia now but this is
>
> "According to the origins theory<http://www.conservapedia.com/Origins_theory>model used by young earth creation
> scientists <http://www.conservapedia.com/Creation_science>, modern
> kangaroos are the descendants of the two founding members of the modern
> kangaroo baramin that were taken aboard Noah's Ark<http://www.conservapedia.com/Noah%27s_Ark>prior to the Great
> Flood <http://www.conservapedia.com/Great_Flood>. It has not yet been
> determined by baraminologists <http://www.conservapedia.com/Baraminology>whether kangaroos form a
> holobaramin <http://www.conservapedia.com/Holobaramin> with the wallaby<http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Wallaby&action=edit>,
> tree-kangaroo<http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Tree-kangaroo&action=edit>,
> wallaroo<http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Wallaroo&action=edit>,
> pademelon<http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Pademelon&action=edit>and
> quokka <http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Quokka&action=edit>,
> or if all these species are in fact apobaraminic<http://www.conservapedia.com/Baraminology>or
> polybaraminic <http://www.conservapedia.com/Baraminology>.
>
> After the Flood, these kangaroos bred from the Ark passengers migrated to
> Australia. There is debate whether this migration happened over land[6]<http://www.conservapedia.com/#_note-cab17>with lower sea levels during the post-flood ice
> age <http://www.conservapedia.com/Ice_age>, or before the supercontinent
> of Pangea <http://www.conservapedia.com/Pangea> broke apart[7]<http://www.conservapedia.com/#_note-4>,
> or if they rafted <http://www.conservapedia.com/Rafting_%28ecology%29> on
> mats of vegetation torn up by the receding flood waters.[6]<http://www.conservapedia.com/#_note-cab17>The idea that God simply generated kangaroos into existence there is
> considered by most creation researchers to be contra-Biblical. "
>
> I am afraid it is difficult not to laugh at all this. I wont go into
> baramins but to put the break-up of Pangaea (nonsic!) in the Flood is
> completely contradicted by all geology .
>
> You need to realise that YEC arguments are always so absurd and often full
> of systematic distortions that the first reaction is to laugh at the utter
> nonsense of them and then if one is masochistic to refute them point by
> point.
>
>
>
> I don't see design and evolution in contradiction but I would want to ask
> why God designed the Ebola virus.
>
>
>
> Michael
>
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> *From:* Peter Loose <peterwloose@compuserve.com>
> *To:* asa@calvin.edu
> *Sent:* Friday, July 27, 2007 11:23 AM
> *Subject:* [asa] Designed Kangaroos?
>
>
>
> Friends – I have been off-line for some time due to computer hijack issues
> (and that despite running all the latest tools to keep free of these pests
> out there!) but when I came back on I saw a report about laughing at the
> idea that a Kangaroo's legs were designed for leaping. I think I also saw
> comments about some being 'embarrassed' by this observation.
>
> I am intrigued. Would someone explain which part or parts are laughable
> and why?
>
> Blessings
>
> Peter
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