Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 00:12:25 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Neal E. Westfall" <nwestfal@directvinternet.com> Cc: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>, Joshua Lee <yid@softhome.net>, dave@jetcafe.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? Message-ID: <3D79A6D9.776EED2B@mindspring.com> References: <20020906160208.R44625-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan>
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"Neal E. Westfall" wrote: > The difficulty is that it implies an absurdity. We don't live the rest > of our lives that way, so why should we assume absurdities when it comes > to ultimate truth? You are a coder, no? A contributer to FreeBSD? When > you code, do you not have to follow certain conventions, like programming > syntax, in order to produce anything fruitful? You don't create the rules > of syntax as you go, right? It doesn't work that way. You have to follow > the rules that somebody else has established. Life is like that. We have > to follow the rules that God has established, or we end up paying the > penalty by having to endure all sorts of undesirable consequences. It > doesn't mean we aren't free, of course. God built into the system a great > deal of leeway for creativity, which is why we have artists, computer > programmers, architects, and a whole plethora of other professions in > which man, as God's image bearer, can think God's thoughts after Him and > emulate His creativity. style(9) -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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