From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Sep 7 0:13:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5066037B405; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 00:13:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44BAC43E75; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 00:13:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0057.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.57] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17nZmX-0007cF-00; Sat, 07 Sep 2002 00:13:25 -0700 Message-ID: <3D79A6D9.776EED2B@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 00:12:25 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Neal E. Westfall" Cc: Juli Mallett , Joshua Lee , dave@jetcafe.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? References: <20020906160208.R44625-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Neal E. Westfall" wrote: > The difficulty is that it implies an absurdity. We don't live the rest > of our lives that way, so why should we assume absurdities when it comes > to ultimate truth? You are a coder, no? A contributer to FreeBSD? When > you code, do you not have to follow certain conventions, like programming > syntax, in order to produce anything fruitful? You don't create the rules > of syntax as you go, right? It doesn't work that way. You have to follow > the rules that somebody else has established. Life is like that. We have > to follow the rules that God has established, or we end up paying the > penalty by having to endure all sorts of undesirable consequences. It > doesn't mean we aren't free, of course. God built into the system a great > deal of leeway for creativity, which is why we have artists, computer > programmers, architects, and a whole plethora of other professions in > which man, as God's image bearer, can think God's thoughts after Him and > emulate His creativity. style(9) -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message