Date:   1/25/2014 1:36:30 PM ( 10 y ago)
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Hi Lorica,

Thank you for your extensive reply.

First, I of course, believe you will only benefit health-wise from getting as many antioxidant electrons into your body as possible [so I heartily second your "determination"]!

Second, your interest and knowledge of the "creation vs. evolution" controversy is WAY beyond mine [on both counts]! I thought that maybe there was one particular article [or something along those lines] that you had read that changed your mind [and so I was going to take a look at that].

At any rate, let me say this [in clarification of my views]: While it seems to me that the evolutionary theory makes sense in a great many ways, I still believe that there is CLEARLY some sort of INTELLIGENT force behind that "creative" process [vs. just blind and random chance]. So, in that sense, you might say that I straddle the fence between the two "purist" views, e.g. my view of the natural world around me convinces me that there is obviously some sort of tremendously intelligent power directing evolution vs. just some sort of an anthropomorphic entity bringing it all into existence in "six days."

In fact, getting even more philosophical, I would say that there are not one, but two different "evolutions" going on simultaneously:

1) The usual physical evolution [that people speak of], dealing with one species eventually spawning another; and

2) An evolution of consciousness where each "higher" form is more and more aware of [and participating in (on different levels, e.g. emotional, mental, etc.)] the natural world we see around us.

Question: Setting religious/biblical views aside, why cannot divine creation be taking place VIA an evolutionary process? It seems to me, as just one example, that clearly the deer of today are faster and fitter than the deer of yesterday, because the slower and less fit/healthy deer of yesterday were "culled" from the herd, e.g. by predators, disease, food shortages, etc., etc., etc. And similarly, the lions of today are faster and fitter than the lions of yesterday, because the slower and less fit lions of yesterday died out [before producing any (or many) offspring] because they could not catch the increasingly faster and fitter deer, and also from the ever evolving disease organisms, etc., etc., etc.

Contrary to what it might appear, Lorica, I suspect we are not as far apart in our views as some might [at first] think!

Again, thank you for your reply(s), and I wish you all the best,

David
 

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