Science and the Sacred

Science and the Sacred

Life

posted by The BioLogos Foundation | 8:00am Saturday July 4, 2009

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“More appropriate, I should think, is the view that God created the universe out of an interest in spontaneous creativity… What would such a universe be like?  Well, it would for one thing be impossible to predict in detail.  And this seems to be the case with the universe we inhabit… Further, a creative universe should give rise to agencies that are themselves creative, which is to say unpredictable.  There is in our universe such an agency, spectacularly successful at reversing the dreary slide of entropy and making surprising things happen. 
We call it life.”

-Timothy Ferris, “The Whole Shebang”, from The Hand of God
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Bob

posted July 5, 2009 at 12:57 pm


Did God cause the extinction of Neanderthal? Please explain how God can create a human line then cause it to go extinct. Would he ever have our lineage go extinct? I can’t find much in the Bible about phylogenetics, extinction, or speciation.



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posted July 6, 2009 at 10:12 am


Bob,
Thanks for your question. If you’d like to read more about the BioLogos perspective on the Image of God (what we would say distinguishes humanity from other ancestral species), we encourage you to read “At What Point in the Evolutionary Process Did Humans Attain ‘The Image of God’?” at http://www.biologos.org.



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