Hi Rick,
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The surface of the Earth is dark 50% of the time. If ToE were true, the advantages afforded by being able to see more than we can today in the dark would've been of benefit.
Being able to see into the future would also be an advantage, much more so than IR vision. Do you think that the ToE demands that we should develop precognition as well?
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suffice it to say that God limited our vision so that we would have a real-world example of what it means to walk around in the dark, versus walking around in the light.
Wow.
Post hoc rationalisation, appeal to authority and special pleading, all in one argument.
Do you not think it more likely that the Bible simply employs a widespread metaphor for knowledge and ignorance? This kind of symbolism is common to nearly every culture in the world. It is a result of our inability to see in the dark, not the cause of it.
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Everything knows it was created
Are you saying that slime molds are proponents of special creation?
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And to answer the previous poster, yes the tree knows God. The earthen soil knows God. The rocks know God. The air knows God. The sea knows God. They know Him and they obey Him.
How do you know that they know?
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He tells the sea, "You can go this far, and no further" when describing how water interacts with dry land. And the sea obeys. He tells the Earth, "this is who you will orbit the sun," and it obeys. He tells the birds, "this is how you will fly," and they do so.
And then He turns to man, His greatest creation and says, "I have created you. I have created all of this to show you my glory. Love me." And we say "NO!" (well many of us do, I choose to love Him).
The Medieval god you describe is such a dictator, the ultimate control freak, that I would not wish to love him. According to your description, he is a tyrant who must even prescribe the flight of a sparrow. Rather petty for an omnibenevolent entity isn't it?
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It is a commentary about the state of man...{continues in similar vein}
Save it for the Faith and Belief forum. This is a science forum.
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