>When I'll die and if I remember (or care) I'll make a
>point to ask Him how it all began.
Why wait until then? He gave you the power to ask now. I don't see
what the harm is in asking. He may not provide all the answers in this
life, but I do think He puts us on the way to having them. Natural
human curiosity is what sets men on the path to seek (and find) Him. He
created that curiosity--we do not offend Him by using it. He knows we
are going to think of some absurdities along the way. I'll bet he gets
a right good chuckle out of them too. He can correct us (or not) at his
liesure. The debate itself is the best corrective of all.
>How man came into being I believe, was that God
>supernaturally made man, male and female, without having
>to wait for all of the lapses in time suggested here.
I agree that it was supernatural. I do not see how nature as we know it
could exist without the supernature. Darwinists themselves don't
realize just how many assumptions they carry into the discussion that
presuppose the supernature. Just listen to them. Pretty soon they
start talking as if DNA itself were the intelligence of the universe.
They too are awestruck, but they cannot turn their wonder onto God.
Therefore they have fashioned a new "unseen deity". They speak as if
there is something intelligent and purposeful behind (or in) nature all
the while denying that any such thing (or Person) exists.
Moreover, just because we can identify SOME natural mechanisms behind
creation does not discount the activity of the Creator. When looking at
a great painting, it is because we see brush strokes that we conclude
the existence of a painter. Just because God is supernatural, do we
assume that his brushstrokes will never appear on His canvas.
>God lives in a different dimension and He isn't constrained
>by our limits.
My point exactly! It is precisely because He is in a different
dimension that we can make sense of those "lapses in time". What took
little or no time by His reckoning could have taken massive time spans
by ours. We now know (through recent conclusions about relativity) that
there must be additional time dimensions outside our own. The flow of
time in those dimensions is almost certainly very different from that of
our own.
I visualize the differing dimensions like two gears one large and one
small that are interlocked and turning. The small gear will be turning
faster in precise ratio to their size differential--the greater the
differential, the faster it will be turning relative to the large gear.
There is nothing magical or mysterious about it. Modern cosmology can
already imagine the possibility.
Russ
-- Russell T. Cannonrcannon@usa.net