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From: dk@browngr.UUCP (David Kantrowitz)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: How about the future?
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Date: Mon, 8-Oct-84 10:51:37 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  8 10:51:37 1984
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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.