(Aug 8, 07) UNFORTUNATELY, MOUW BELIEVES IN EVOLUTION "...The spiritual issue is a little more challenging. How do you get believers to get excited spiritually about the fact that the earth is millions of years old, and that human beings have evolved from lower forms of life? On this challenge, I was immensely pleased to come across a wonderful paragraph in a scholarly essay, published in the early 1990s in Christian Scholars Review, by Ernan McMullen, who taught in the Notre Dame philosophy department for several decades Father McMullen affirms that over a period of millions of years, there have been“uncountable species that flourished and vanished [and] have left a trace of themselves in us.” The Bible, he says, sees God as preparing the world for “the coming of Christ back through Abraham to Adam”; but is it too much of a stretch, he asks, “to suggest that natural science now allows us to extend the story indefinitely further back?” And then this wonderful passage: “When Christ took on human nature, the DNA that made him the son of Mary may have linked him to a more ancient http://www.netbloghost.com/mouw/?m=200708

[I disagree with Mouw & believe he is compromising the word of God...as he continues to slide down the slippery slope to nowhere land...if we evolved from lower species, then we r just another biological species as well ..merely a higher form of animal, like a chimp is higher than a squirrel, rather than human beings as the crowning achievement of God ...and this creeps into mouw's treatment of people...sure he speaks of "civility" but nothing more ? not even christmas lights on your house, nor christmas cards ? does mouw do either ? does he do anything special or just do his job ? seems to me u gotta do more, be better than a mere animal, albeit a higher form of animal...what a sad worldview..evolution is a sad sad thing..I'm glad I don't believe in it, nor does God Almighty (Aug 8, 07) MOUW BELIEVES IN EVOLUTION "...The spiritual issue is a little more challenging. How do you get believers to get excited spiritually about the fact that the earth is millions of years old, and that human beings have evolved from lower forms of life? On this challenge, I was immensely pleased to come across a wonderful paragraph in a scholarly essay, published in the early 1990s in Christian Scholars Review, by Ernan McMullen, who taught in the Notre Dame philosophy department for several decades Father McMullen affirms that over a period of millions of years, there have been“uncountable species that flourished and vanished [and] have left a trace of themselves in us.” The Bible, he says, sees God as preparing the world for “the coming of Christ back through Abraham to Adam”; but is it too much of a stretch, he asks, “to suggest that natural science now allows us to extend the story indefinitely further back?” And then this wonderful passage: “When Christ took on human nature, the DNA that made him the son of Mary may have linked him to a more ancient
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