RE: [asa] Advice for conversing with YECs (and now the flood)

Ok so maybe God did. But why? And maybe he created the earth in six days and hid the evidence and on and on and on....

And why it is necessary to believe this? What does it add to your faith?

Not to get into politics, but to paraphrase a former Presidential candidate, this is the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.

John

--- On Wed, 10/29/08, George Cooper <georgecooper@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: George Cooper <georgecooper@sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: RE: [asa] Advice for conversing with YECs (and now the flood)
> To: asa@calvin.edu
> Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 5:21 PM
> Bernie,
>
> If God uses evolutionary processes to produce a plethora of
> life forms for
> His own satisfaction and glory, it seems to me that we
> should consider the
> possibility that He would, when a very rare planet hosts a
> sentient life
> form, simply use the evolved DNA and other molecular
> structures of such
> species as His template for anyone He elects to make from
> scratch and give
> spiritual life to by His own spiritual "breath"
> (eg Adam).
>
> Thus, no hide and seek is played, of course, and no proof
> that would nullify
> faith due to evidenciary knowledge is found (per James
> point).
>
> Coope
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu
> [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
> Behalf Of Dehler, Bernie
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 1:54 PM
> Cc: AmericanScientificAffiliation
> Subject: RE: [asa] Advice for conversing with YECs (and now
> the flood)
>
> James said:
>
> > If God had custom designed the DNA of man (or any
> organism for that
> > matter) to be "perfect" then it would have
> been like putting a signpost
> > there stating "God was here"
>
> Does that mean that God also hid all the evidence from a
> worldwide flood,
> because if we saw the marks on the Earth from a world wide
> flood (which we
> don't) it would scream "God was here?"
>
> James makes it sound like God is playing a very serious
> game of hide and
> seek. However, if God created via evolution, there's
> nothing to hide, and
> the marks we observe just reveal reality.
>
> ...Bernie
>
>
>
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