Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!wjh12!foxvax1!brunix!browngr!dk From: dk@browngr.UUCP (David Kantrowitz) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: How about the future? Message-ID: <1401@browngr.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Oct-84 10:51:37 EDT Article-I.D.: browngr.1401 Posted: Mon Oct 8 10:51:37 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 02:50:06 EDT References: hao.1187, cvl.1382 <1373@browngr.UUCP> Lines: 28 You missed my point and concentrated on a minor detail, forcing me to repeat the argument: Science has evolved. We discover new things all the time. This implies that our current scientific knowledge is imperfect and incomplete. So, if we see no significant difference between two enzymes, we don't dare conclude that the Creator has erred (or therefore that there is no Creator and things happen by chance). Our past experiences should only make us more humbly aware of the limitations of our understanding, when compared with the designs of One whose knowledge is perfect and complete. Additionally, if the Creator chose to create the world according to a system of "natural laws", it may have been necessary to create two similar enzymes in order to get just the right numbers of the right kinds of animals. There is a story about King David. He wanted to know what the purpose of spiders is in the world. One day he was being pursued, and he hid in a cave. Along came a spider and made a web on the opening of the cave, making it clear to his pursuer that no one had entered the cave (for otherwise they would have broken the web). Know that a creature's purpose is unknown to us, and every creation has its time and place. For example, Gold is said to have been created specifically so that it would be used in building parts of the temple in Israel (Bais HaMikdash). Accordingly, the many uses gold has been put to in history are insignificant compared to its use in the temple. So the fact that you don't know the significance of one enzyme means merely that you haven't had the privilege of seeing it do *its* thing.