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Date:      Sun, 8 Sep 2002 17:46:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Neal E. Westfall" <nwestfal@directvinternet.com>
To:        George Reid <george.reid@oriel.ox.ac.uk>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>, Joshua Lee <yid@softhome.net>, <dave@jetcafe.org>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Why did evolution fail?
Message-ID:  <20020908174226.B80977-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20020909013107.A1942@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, George Reid wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 04:56:52PM -0700, Neal E. Westfall wrote:
>
> > By the way, only Christianity can account for what you note above,
> > that no religion give us a comprehensive understanding of God.  The
> > Christian doctrine of God's incomprehensibility takes this into
> > account.
>
> Oh, come on.  Islam, for one, also asserts the incomprehensibility of
> Allah.  f.e, Ta-Ha 20:110: "He knows their past and their future, while none
> encompasses His knowledge."  Islamic fiqh states that "his true nature
> cannot be described by anyone nor can thinkers imagine that nature" and
> "to know Him one considers His signs, but one does not think about His
> essence."  See also Dr. Samuel Zwemer's "The Moslem Doctrine of God".

Actually the Islamic doctrine of mukhalafa says that it Allah is *so*
different from his creatures that it is impossible to postulate anything
about him at all.  But then what is the Koran if not an attempt to do
this?  In addition, Islam falsifies itself, since the Koran recognizes
the Torah and the Christian scriptures as true revelations from God, yet
claims that Christ did not raise from the dead.  The Koran contradicts
itself.


Neal



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