Re: Exploding Evidence of God's Hand?

Jim Foley (jimf@vangelis.ncrmicro.ncr.com)
Thu, 21 Sep 95 12:57:46 MDT

>>>>> On 20 Sep 95 12:13:36 EDT, Jim Bell <70672.1241@compuserve.com> said:

>> Stephen Jones quotes from Erickson:

>> << On this
>> basis, one can correlate the beginning of man in the full biblical
>> sense with the evidence of a great cultural outburst about 30,000 to
>> 40,000 years ago. >>

>> This struck me: isn't this phenomenon precisely like the Cambrian explosion
>> vis-a-vis life forms?

>> Think about it: a similar design feature of God--modest physical precursors,
>> then a sudden "explosion" that is, in essence, a quantum leap forward that
>> CANNOT be claimed to have evolutionary antecedents.

No, it seems to me that it has a lot more in common with the Industrial
Revolution, except that it probably took a lot longer (talking about
30,000 to 40,000 yrs here, not the Cambrian explosion). Since I doubt
anyone claims that the industrial revolution is a result of supernatural
intervention, why use it to explain an earlier cultural explosion?

>> It is in line with ReMine's biotic message. It looks exactly like the
>> handiwork of one designer in two different places.

And exactly like the *undesigned* industrial revolution.

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