Re: Christ and Creation

Steve Clark (ssclark@facstaff.wisc.edu)
Thu, 11 Jul 1996 10:02:22 -0500

>>"Genesis 1 can not be understood as miraculous if one believes in an
>>old universe. Plants simply did not appear before the sun appeared."
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>This statement never ceases to amaze me. If we disect it, what many
>people appear to be saying is, "Yeah, I can accept that God can create
>the entire universe; the planets, the stars, rocks and even life itself.
>But get plants to appear before the sun? Get real!"
>
>I've got enough confidence in our God to believe that He might just be
>able to pull this off :)
>
>Joe Faurote
>faurote@nortel.com

Does your confidence also allow for God to have created life by evolutionary
mechanisms?
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