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covering our bodies as a mark of our separateness? My view explains the data
in a way yours doesn't.>>
Only if you suppose that you KNOW the reasons God did it this way, and know
the ends he had in mind. I find that to be a tad presumptive. A theory that
"explains" is only as good as its foundations. Here, I find the "I see no good
reason" foundation one that is lacking vis-a-vis our human limitations. See
Deut. 29:29.
Evolutionists often use this argument, and it is perhaps their weakest. For it
does two things: a) it accepts, arguendo, the existence of God; and b)
proceeds to limit God according to human understanding.
But when I point out that b) is faulty, and that God by definition is above
human understanding, I find them running away from a) so fast it causes a
great and mighty wind.
Jim