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Faith 
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Message 16 of 66 (353692)
10-02-2006 4:48 PM
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10-02-2006 4:23 PM


Boosting mechanisms from environmental influences doesn't contradict anything. We're still talking about a TREND. The system is extremely complex.

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Message 17 of 66 (353695)
10-02-2006 4:54 PM
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10-02-2006 3:15 PM


Faith writes:
my answer would be that Adam and Eve would have had a perfect immune system
This concept lends strong support to the belief that when god created Adam and Eve with free will, he knew that the fall was inevitable, that he in fact planned for it. I have recently been leaning towards this belief as the most reasonable, although I don't know if human reasoning has any significance in these matters. But, it always irks me, as I'm sure it does you, when people talk of the gift of free will as though god were some jerk down the street tinkering in his garage without any clue as to the consequences of his actions. He must certainly have known, form even before the creation, exactly how things would play out in the garden. Given this as being true, we then have the scenario: creation of world, man, and free will; inevitable, pre-ordained fall of man; man cursed to toil, hardship, disease, and death; redemption and salvation of man, who now expresses limitless gratitude. If this is the true pre-planned scenario, we now have a basis to understand what life is all about.

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Message 18 of 66 (353696)
10-02-2006 4:56 PM
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10-02-2006 4:39 PM


Re: no it does not disprove the Fall,
You can of course select anything as your starting premise. I just wanted to point out that while some people might "strongly feel from their study of genesis that disease and death did not exist before the fall, but were invented at that time as part of the punishment", that that is simply false and NOT in the punishments as described in Genesis 3.

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Message 19 of 66 (353705)
10-02-2006 5:15 PM
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10-02-2006 4:54 PM


creation of world, man, and free will; inevitable, pre-ordained fall of man; man cursed to toil, hardship, disease, and death; redemption and salvation of man, who now expresses limitless gratitude
wait--you mean that we're supposed to feel eternally grateful for a god that got us into this to begin with!? well I'll be . . .
why would anyone want to worship that asshole?
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AnswersInGenitals
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Message 20 of 66 (353710)
10-02-2006 5:29 PM
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10-02-2006 4:56 PM


Re: no it does not disprove the Fall,
But this is the whole story of creation told (twice) in less than a page. Just because details are in short supply, are we to understand that there were no details to provide? The exact path that A & E used to exit the garden is not named or described. Are we to understand that they just floated out? Exactly what foods Adam was to farm and what implements he was to use are not described or named. Are we to understand that...I just don't know what to understand if the absence of a detail means that the detail was truly absent. I could list hundreds of details that are not explicitly described in the text but that we know must have been in evidence at the time. Also, we know that man, after death, does not return to 'dust'; maggot feces perhaps, but not actual dust. So we know that we are expected to use our rational minds to fill in the blanks. That's all I'm trying to do.

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AnswersInGenitals
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Message 21 of 66 (353712)
10-02-2006 5:34 PM
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10-02-2006 5:15 PM


kuresu writes:
why would anyone want to worship that asshole?
Maybe because some people believe that's the only asshole they have (well, other than their actual asshole, and worshipping that looks a little freaky.)
Can we please get back on topic as to what the existance of our immune system implies about the interpretation of gensis.
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Message 22 of 66 (353716)
10-02-2006 6:08 PM
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10-02-2006 4:12 PM


gasby writes:
I think in this case disease is implied.
I don't see how.
All living creatures were created before the supposed "fall", including bacteria. It seems contradictory to suggest that disease was a result of the "fall".
It just so happens that diseases like to creep around inside of us.
What's your point?
That the diseases were already there, in their hosts, before any "doom" was pronounced.
As far as we know, Adam and Eve didn't live very long before the supposed "fall". Whether or not they were immune to their tiny inhabitants, they hadn't had much time to get sick and die, so "super-immunity" is just wild specualtion.

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Faith 
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Message 23 of 66 (353731)
10-02-2006 7:59 PM
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10-02-2006 4:54 PM


Faith writes:
my answer would be that Adam and Eve would have had a perfect immune system
This concept lends strong support to the belief that when god created Adam and Eve with free will, he knew that the fall was inevitable, that he in fact planned for it.
Yes, of course. God is omniscient and omnipotent. He would have planned for all contingencies down to the last moment on earth.
I have recently been leaning towards this belief as the most reasonable, although I don't know if human reasoning has any significance in these matters. But, it always irks me, as I'm sure it does you, when people talk of the gift of free will as though god were some jerk down the street tinkering in his garage without any clue as to the consequences of his actions. He must certainly have known, form even before the creation, exactly how things would play out in the garden.
Certainly.
Given this as being true, we then have the scenario: creation of world, man, and free will; inevitable, pre-ordained fall of man; man cursed to toil, hardship, disease, and death; redemption and salvation of man, who now expresses limitless gratitude. If this is the true pre-planned scenario, we now have a basis to understand what life is all about.
Good reasoning from the Biblical evidence I would say.

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Message 24 of 66 (353734)
10-02-2006 8:09 PM
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10-02-2006 5:29 PM


Re: no it does not disprove the Fall,
But this is the whole story of creation told (twice) in less than a page. Just because details are in short supply, are we to understand that there were no details to provide? The exact path that A & E used to exit the garden is not named or described. Are we to understand that they just floated out? Exactly what foods Adam was to farm and what implements he was to use are not described or named. Are we to understand that...I just don't know what to understand if the absence of a detail means that the detail was truly absent. I could list hundreds of details that are not explicitly described in the text but that we know must have been in evidence at the time.
Excellent reasoning, AiG. Since your nom de plume suggests hostility to Biblical creationism I'm very surprised, but also very pleased to see that an opponent can think it through so clearly.

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jar
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Message 25 of 66 (353739)
10-02-2006 8:23 PM
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10-02-2006 5:29 PM


Re: no it does not disprove the Fall,
But this is the whole story of creation told (twice) in less than a page.
First, even if that were true, it has absolutely nothing to do with the topic.
Just because details are in short supply, are we to understand that there were no details to provide?
Again, a pretty silly assertion. If something is not there it is absolutely dishonest to make up something to stick in.

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Message 26 of 66 (353741)
10-02-2006 8:37 PM
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10-02-2006 7:59 PM


Contingencies???
Yes, of course. God is omniscient and omnipotent. He would have planned for all contingencies down to the last moment on earth.
There can be no "contingencies" to something which is omniscient.
Here is one dictionaries defintion:
a future event or circumstance which is possible but cannot be predicted with certainty.
a provision for such an event or circumstance.

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Message 27 of 66 (353746)
10-02-2006 8:50 PM
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10-02-2006 8:09 PM


No hostility towards host.
Excellent reasoning, AiG. Since your nom de plume suggests hostility to Biblical creationism I'm very surprised, but also very pleased to see that an opponent can think it through so clearly.
Thank you for those kind words. I was just trying to point out how easy it is to interpret the bible to say or mean any damn thing you want it to, an enterprise that you and I enjoy in equal measure. Its that 'lack of embellishment' thing. Opens the door to all sorts of follow-up 'embellishment'.
As to my nom de plume, in as much as my main goal in life is to avoid getting beat up, I intend hostility towards no one. (Well maybe Buzzsaw a tiny, tiny bit, but he started it.)
Regards, AnInGe

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Message 28 of 66 (353774)
10-02-2006 9:52 PM
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10-02-2006 8:37 PM


Re: Contingencies???
Strictly speaking you are correct. In fact I wondered if I should use the word. I decided that it makes sense from the human point of view. We think in terms of contingencies that would arise from an event. God sees them all at once of course so they aren't contingencies but it's reasonable for us to speak of them in such terms.

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Message 29 of 66 (353793)
10-03-2006 1:37 AM
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10-02-2006 3:15 PM


Faith writes:
A big part of the devolution since the Fall, then, would be the gradual destruction of the immune system, but we still have quite a bit of protection left. Interesting in this context to consider that recent diseases specifially attack that system.
Actually the immune system is in fine form and growing stronger. These "recent diseases" (by which I assume you mean acquired - or secondary - immunodeficiencies) provide an excellent example of evolution in action. Since the only way that viruses can reproduce is by infecting a cell, they must be able to evolve faster than the host's cells. The HIV virus has evolved to a point where it mutates extremely rapidly and thereby has a devastating impact on the host. However the genetic mutation CCR5-delta 32 provides strong resistance to the HIV virus (along with smallpox and the plague).
CCR5 - Wikipedia
What started out as a single genetic mutation is now present in up to 20% of the European population and to a lesser degree in other populations, due to the selective pressures of viruses in the past. The more that we are exposed to them, the higher the frequency of that particular mutation and its protection.
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Message 30 of 66 (353794)
10-03-2006 1:48 AM
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10-02-2006 6:08 PM


Ringo writes:
All living creatures were created before the supposed "fall", including bacteria.
Yes, according to genesis. However, the story also says that man would have dominion over all creatures.
quote:
19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
clearly, everything was intended to be a positive amusement for A. What we now know as imperfect and perfect parasites were also created then but probably had diffferent purposes or functions. I suspect that only after the fall did the parasites turn on mankind.
It seems contradictory to suggest that disease was a result of the "fall".
Disease, not the parasites and pathogens, was a result of the fall.
That the diseases were already there, in their hosts, before any "doom" was pronounced.
While I am viewing disease and the pathogen that causes it as two distinct categories, you see them as one. The pathogens were already there but they did not cause the diseases before the fall.
As far as we know, Adam and Eve didn't live very long before the supposed "fall".
I don't think there is any place in genesis that give us a frame of reference in regard to A and E's time in Eden.
Whether or not they were immune to their tiny inhabitants, they hadn't had much time to get sick and die, so "super-immunity" is just wild specualtion.
I wasn't arguing for the super immunity idea.

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