Re: [asa] Designed Kangaroos?

I found the following explanation rather more helpful:

*I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and
especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result
of brute force.* *I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from
designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working
out of what we may call chance.

Darwin - letter to Asa Gray - (1860)

I*t would of course take too long to give a full explanation as to why God
allows bad things to happen. But I can't accept that it was _literally_ due
to one historical woman and her husband eating a piece of fruit. My example
was to show how unacceptable a literal interpretation is. The account is
clearly an allegory of our own sinful and disobedient nature and our need
for salvation.

If we give cosy examples of God "designing kangaroos for jumping" then we
get a good feeling, but if we think about God designing tigers expressly for
ripping gazelles apart then it's not so easy.

Anyway - I'm off on holiday, so won't be responding for a while.

Iain*
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On 7/28/07, David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So what is your explanation Iain? Does this help?
>
> On 7/27/07, Iain Strachan <igd.strachan@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 7/27/07, Michael Roberts < michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I don't see design and evolution in contradiction but I would want to
> > > ask why God designed the Ebola virus.
> > >
> > >
> > Trivial. God designed the Ebola virus because a real man and a real
> > woman ate a piece of fruit that they weren't supposed to in 4004BC.
> >
> > Really, Michael, you lack of knowledge is truly shocking!
> >
> > Maybe what's more shocking to some is that I don't believe my
> > explanation.
> >
> > [ Ducks to avoid hail of rotten fruit ].
> >
> > Iain
> >
>
>

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