Time: Sun Jun 29 10:29:01 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA18275; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 10:29:01 -0700 (MST) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA28110; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 10:28:55 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 10:27:15 -0700 To: snetnews@world.std.com From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: Creator's comeback in Public Schools (fwd) References: <3.0.1.32.19970628230809.0069a574@clark.net> <33B67AFE.25CA@mail.ld.centuryinter.net> Einstein was into destruction: E = M x C x C The Most High is into creation: M = E / (C x C) (divide both sides by the quantity (C x C)) This is a formulaic metaphor for the Acts of the Most High. /s/ Paul Mitchell http://www.supremelaw.com At 10:39 AM 6/29/97 -0600, you wrote: > >-> SearchNet's SNETNEWS Mailing List > >Ray Earnest wrote: > >xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >Ray, > >I have to agree. Here's a part of an essay I wrote a few years ago on >the subject of Creationism: > > I remain perplexed that so many of my colleagues at the university >level are so reluctant to subscribe to any sort of religious explanation >of the development of life. Rather, they blandly assume that life began >through a random series of coincidences. The contemplation of the >unfathomable and abstruse complexities of the human organism lends >itself poorly to the theory that, at a primordial instant in time, a >congenial cluster of amino acids and other organic chemicals >concatenated to a living, self-replicating creature, which eventuated, >just by chance, into a complex and intelligent life form. I marvel at >such faith! > The Anthropic Principle, as set forth by Brandon Carter, points out >that without a large number of astonishing coincidences, such as the >remarkable exactitude among the universal constants-values such as >Planck's (h), or the gravitational constant, G, a universe that was >hospitable to the development of life would have been impossible! >Surely, as an unbiased observer, a scientist may begin to suspect the >presence of a supreme and existential INTELLIGENCE behind it all, >especially after attempting to unravel the labyrinthine interstices of >the human genome! In point of fact, there are literally thousands of >preexistent preconditions in the universe, without which life of any >complexity would be impossible. > On the other hand, while it does seem absurd to imagine that a god >created the earth in seven days, could it not have been a Master >Designer, a Celestial Biologist--Geophysicist who did the job over >billions of years, or perhaps seven periods of God-time, through the >calculated overcontrol of evolution? Science may, one day, assemble all >of the chemical ingredients of protoplasm, but they shall never find a >way to breath the spark of life into dead organic matter. For that, my >friends, is the domain of the Gods. > >Byron T. Weeks, MD >> >Big Snip) >> Having studied the Bible for twenty years or more, I can find nothing >> therein which detracts from either the evolutionary or the crea- >> tionism arguments. What I find is that both sides of the argument >> fail to establish exactly what the time frames are as mentioned >> in the bible, i.e., a day three or four billion years ago may just >> be millions of our current twenty-four hour 'days,' which would >> make both sides of the argument correct, overall. >> The translation of the original manuscripts which created the bible is >> the choosing of the translator. Day, in Hebrew-Chaldee language, >> can mean from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next. >> Or (and this is the key) it can mean 'a space of time defined by >> an associated term.' Creationists want all terms to be 24 hour >> days, which defies science and logic, and evolutionists add fuel to >> the heat of argument by failing to understand that 'day' has dif- >> ferent meanings for different situations and connect these mean- >> ings to God's idea of creation. >> >From Genesis we read 'In the beginning God created the heaven and the >> earth.' If there were no earth before this creation then we most >> certainly had no twenty-four hour sunset to sunset days, and the >> argument that ALL days are such is absurd. On the otherhand, >> scientific belief that all of the wonderful things we see and en- >> joy on this earth 'just happened' is also absurd. Time, to God, is >> nonexistent, or unimportant. Before the beginning He had in mind >> what he wanted to happen, and he ordained that it happen. It >> started happening at that instant and will continue to happen until >> His intent is fulfilled. We are in constant evolution, and this >> cannot be denied. We are a part of God's creation, and this nei- >> ther can be denied. The acceptance of these correlations by both >> sides would end the discussion; however, God foresaw the humdrum >> life His human creation would lead and left a few things unsaid, >> thereby giving us something for which to while away our 'time' >> known now as argument, and this is where we stand today, and will >> always be until we reach the end of our evolution, whatever and >> whenever that may be. >> >> Ray Earnest >> >> -> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo@world.std.com >> -> Posted by: Ray Earnest <cen11156@mail.ld.centuryinter.net> > >-> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo@world.std.com >-> Posted by: "Byron Weeks, MD" <doc777@cyberhighway.net> > > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. 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