On Fri, 22 Dec 1995 13:18:54 -0500 you wrote:
[...]
>3. The various agencies God uses to create and govern His creation don't
>share His attributes of omnipotence and omniscience and therefore cannot be
>expected to produce a nature as perfect as perhaps God could were He to
>work directly.
[...]
Why do we beat around the bush with this? There is no statement
in Scripture that God created everything *perfect*, just that it was
"good" (Gn 1:4ff). One could perhaps say "good enough"? If creatures
were perfect, then they would become objects of worship.
Clearly creation is a *creature* and suffers from limitations that
God decreed it have. God set Himself design constraints in making
living things. He graciously gave the Panda an extended wrist-bone
because that was the best that could be given under the design
constraints of a bear body-plan.
What if God had made every living thing absolutely perfect? Would
that make Darwinists believe in God? I doubt it. They would say,
"isn't evolution wonderful - it made everything perfect. Who needs
God?" :-)
Happy New Year!
Stephen
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