The Horrors of Evolution (Evolution)

by dhw, Wednesday, September 03, 2008, 13:26 (5923 days ago) @ edinburgh4

Edinburgh4 has outlined the Bible's teaching on the Horrors of Evolution and on the Fall of Man. - First I'd like belatedly to thank you for giving us this perpective on problems that many of us find insoluble. Carl's response is exactly what my own would have been, and I'd hoped you might give us a Christian answer to the question he's raised. To this I would like to add one more. - Carl points out that when God created Satan and the rest of the world, in his omniscience he must have known what would happen, and so it's strange that he should be angry at a situation that he himself had set up. This conundrum leads us further back: if God is the prime cause that created everything else, and there was nothing before him, evil has to be his creation. It could not have come into existence independently of his will or knowledge. Is it in any way conceivable that a being who has created evil out of nothing is himself all good? - There is a possible answer to this question in your posting. You quote Genesis 1:26: Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness." If man is in God's image, and we know that man is a mixture of good and evil, doesn't it follow that God is the same?