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Re: Re evolution stuff
well then, 'nuff said I guess.
>From: "Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>
>Reply-To: "Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>
>CC: Over the Rhine listserv <Over-the-Rhine at actwin_com>
>Subject: Re: Re evolution stuff
>Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:41:22 -0700 (PDT)
>
>On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, ryan richards wrote:
> > I'm not trying to get in the last word or anything, but was rather
> > wondering if any of you felt that much of this debate results from the
> > debate of "old" earth verses "young" earth. . . . has anyone ever heard
> > of the "gap" theory- that is, the theory that the account in Genesis 1:1
> > was the original creation by whatever means God chose while Genesis 1:2
> > is actually the beginning of the account of God's re-creaction of earth
> > after it been laid waste for some unrevealed reason.
>
>I've heard of that one several times over the years, but I don't think it
>affects the debate one way or the other, because a literalistic reading of
>Genesis would still assert that everything from 1:2 on took place just
>6,000 years ago or so, and evolutionists would still assert that it took
>all those lifeforms millions or billions of years to evolve.
>
>--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
> "I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
> Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom
>
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