From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 8 17:31: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E69E37B401; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 17:30:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 463A243E6A; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 17:30:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from george.reid@oriel.ox.ac.uk) Received: from sobek.lan ([80.6.30.227]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020909003056.ZGKX290.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@sobek.lan>; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 01:30:56 +0100 Received: (from greid@localhost) by sobek.lan (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g890V7m02060; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 01:31:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from george.reid@oriel.ox.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: sobek.lan: greid set sender to george.reid@oriel.ox.ac.uk using -f Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 01:31:07 +0100 From: George Reid To: "Neal E. Westfall" Cc: Terry Lambert , Juli Mallett , Joshua Lee , dave@jetcafe.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? Message-ID: <20020909013107.A1942@FreeBSD.org> References: <3D7A380D.C682AE67@mindspring.com> <20020908164812.X80977-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020908164812.X80977-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan>; from nwestfal@directvinternet.com on Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 04:56:52PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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". -- George C A Reid WWW: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~greid/ Mob: (07740) 197460 FreeBSD Committer/Developer greid@FreeBSD.org Oriel College, Oxford University george.reid@oriel.ox.ac.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message