From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!ihuxr!lew Newsgroups: net.religion Title: Re: flesh of beasts Article-I.D.: ihuxr.336 Posted: Fri Feb 18 17:30:22 1983 Received: Sun Feb 20 03:37:54 1983 Reply-To: lew@ihuxr.UUCP (Lew Mammel, Jr.) I think I do know what Paul means in the passage I quoted (I Corinthians 15:39) He is giving support to his assertion that the spirit can take different forms. The question whether birds are of "a different flesh" than fish is not his central concern. I think the context strengthens rather than weakens my interpretation, which is that Paul is saying that the various life forms are essentially different. I know that he is not placing the burden of proof on this analogy, but is only offering what he regards as a commonplace fact to give plausibility to his more extraordinary claim (the resurrection of the dead.) I'm saying that such support as this analogy might have afforded is removed by our knowledge of the unity of all life on earth, and further that this knowledge is profoundly incompatible with the Christian world view. To this this extent I think the creationists are correct. I agree with them that the modern scientific interpretation of the world is a dire threat to Christian doctrine. Lew Mammel, Jr. ihuxr!lew