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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Fun Facts and Definitions
Message-ID: <391@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 13:43:24 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  6 13:43:24 1985
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Summary: 

In article <409@terak.UUCP> david@terak.UUCP (David Jayakaran) flippantly
thumbs his nose at the idea of evolution.  I'll wait for him to post
to net.origins if he wants to risk being rebutted.

However, his quotations from the bible make me wonder about Christian
viewpoints on a few questions.

> For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to
> nothing the understanding of the prudent.  Where is the wise?  Where is the
> scribe?  Where is the disputer of this world?  Hath not God made foolish
> the wisdom of this world?                             I Corinthians 1:19-20

Does this fate apply to those wise in the study of the Bible?

And what fate does your god have in store for the foolish?

> Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God
> is stronger than men.                                 I Corinthians 1:25

What is the foolishness of God?  And the weakness of God?  Surely they must
have something in mind.

The important question I have is:

Purportedly God has provided inspired text for us to study.  He has also
provided an inspired creation for us to study.  Why should either have
precedence and why?  (With respect to creation/evolution.)
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh