Posted by Bob on 10/19/2007, 1:53 pm, in reply to "Re: Infection Worse than AIDS" Creationism does not predict homogeneity in the geologic record. On the contrary, the bible account is one of "days" of creation, sequential. Creationism's central focus, and a lot of its advocates do not know this, involves the creation of man. Humans are not mere apes with some added features. Physically we are much alike, but in the spiritual level, there is no comparison. Also, creationism posits the human soul as something self-evident to each of us, an inner-experienced reality that transcends the physical. Each of us knows, in his heart of hearts, that he is not a mere assemblage of inert atoms, that we are not puppets on a cosmic string, slaves to deterministic and random dictates. We are volitional, capable of originating chains of causation into the physical world, capable of breaking free of that chain and making moral decisions despite any prior influences. Otherwise, we are mere robots, and we know inwardly that we are not. It is from these central tenets that Christianity looks outward from the soul, into a world of phenomena, and with guidance from scripture and prayer, tries to make sense of it. I have no interest in denying evolution per se. It is when evolution is interpreted to mean that we are merely fancified animals that I diverge, and whatever the current state of the evidence is, I have faith that when all the facts are out, and that when the scales have fallen from our eyes, we will see "not in part, but the whole."
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Creation and evolution are different theories, but both currently have problems.
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