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[Douglas <dougwils@moscow.com>]

Dear visionaries,

For my two cents on Debi's post, just one comment. Lev. 25:44 does
apply to Canadians. Once you grasp that, the rest of biblical law
makes perfect sense.

And in response to Daniel's question, the "meat grinder" of
natural selection cannot work without nature being "red in tooth and
claw." Death, disease, suffering, pain -- in short, the problem of
evil -- cannot be God's method, unless we are prepared to say that
something like cancer is a positive good like food, air, and sunshine.
Given what the Scriptures reveal about the goodness of God, I am not
prepared to do that.

It is not illegitimate "polarizing" to point out what a
position entails. If evolution were God's good method of creating all
living things, a more wasteful process for an omnipotent being can hardly
be imagined. But if evolution is occurring in an atheistic universe, then
we do not have this problem with evil, because there is no such thing as
evil. But then we have the enormous problem of explaining the mechanics
of how matter can organize itself into higher and higher degrees of
engineered complexity. All that engineering, and no engineer. Just like
magic.

Anyway, to keep us on the point of the larger discussion, multitudes of
Christian parents have decided it is far easier to start private schools
or educate their children at home than to try to explain basic worldview
concepts to those who run the government schools. People actually say
things like, "There is no such thing as modernity." So to tie
this in with the "rumor" thread, we are not interested in
taking over your institutions. You, however, seem bent on not
understanding your own institutions, chasing your best people out of
them, downgrading them, abandoning them, and not defending them. But
intellectual apathy preserves nothing.