dmr@research.UUCP (03/21/84)
The arguments about details of Paluxy footprints are becoming tedious. "Evolutionists," using the term broadly, have a reasonably coherent history of the universe from Big Bang through today, including the development of life. It has a timescale and some sort of mechanism, grounded in observational physical science, that offers explanations of how things came to be. Some of the explanations are highly tentative, even unconvincing. This history of the world is easily accessible (in some states it is even taught in the schools) so I won't repeat it; orthodox scientists seem in remarkable agreement about most aspects of this history. What I would like to see is the orthodox creation-science history of the universe. What do creation-scientists believe happened, and when? Is there an agreed-upon history?
wbpesch@ihuxp.UUCP (Walt Pesch) (03/21/84)
To get the Creationist History of the world, simply open your Bible
and start with Genesis, with Adam & Eve as the Sole Progenitors of the
Human Race. Then continue through the Old Testament for Ancient
History, and read Church History for the Modern History. And in case
of any misunderstandings, please see your local minister.
Walt Pesch
AT&T Technologies
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Be sure not to miss the part about the Plagues, it has got great
terror scenes as the wrathful god murders all the first-born.dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) (03/21/84)
The Lubavitch sect of Orthodox Jews has a very detailed description
of the history of creation, involving very deep (kabbalistic)
concepts of the process through which matter was created from nothingness.
I don't pretend to understand it in the least. It's set out in the
"Tanya", which is available in a bilingual (Hebrew/English) version
from Lubavitch organizations. In particular one of the appendices to
the bilingual version is a description of the creation process, written
by Rabbi J. Immanuel Shochet in language which lay people can (almost)
understand (if one works hard enough at it).
Dave Sherman
Toronto
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