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Author Topic:   Evolution guided by god? Or a natural process?
inge1990
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Message 1 of 44 (499076)
02-16-2009 2:56 PM


Hello!
I have no idea if it is allowed to ask questions with regard to an assignment for school on this forum,
but I have a topic for a presentation in which I will try to
convince people that God created the universe and organisms,
but that God also guides the process of evolution.
Now I was wondering if there are "arguments" (not scientifically proven) to support the statement that Evolution is guided by God,
and that is not just a natural process occuring after the creation.
Are there any suggestions on this?

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inge1990
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Message 12 of 44 (499188)
02-17-2009 6:49 AM
Reply to: Message 11 by Huntard
02-17-2009 1:47 AM


Indeed, I am Dutch
Thank you for all your reactions! It really helped me!
And I'm sure I will visit this forum more often, I am really interested in those things. (I noticed this during the last few weeks, when I was working on my assignment ,
I had to choose a topic related to Darwin, and since I believe in the evolution theory, but also believe in God, my main focus is
theistic evolution).
I already had one "argument" which is maybe more or less related
to Rahvin's reply:
"It is argued that evolution would require some kind of guidance to guarantee that random variation combined with undirected selection would produce any particular creature. There are simply too many accidents involved without guidance." (I have this from another site)
Another argument I have (maybe not directly related to guidance by god, but to faith/belief), is a question James and Clifford ever proposed:
Must ALL your beliefs be dictated by the evidence you have and by nothing else?
Further I also talk about some "gaps" in the Big Bang theory,
the first organisms and the origin of DNA (to support creation by God). The evidence for the evolution theory (to support that evolution is true), but after that I want to convince people that
evolution should be guided by god (The only thing I still need to work on). The presentation and essay don't have to prove that the story of God is true, but it has to be persuasive, So I hope I am!
By the way ... I will go to a lecture from Cees Dekker (see wikipedia for information about him ), and if he has some interesting things to say (I'm sure about that) I will definitely
let you know! (if I get his permission)

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