creation

[Thomas Lammers]

At 07:02 PM 11/14/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Jumping back to a post of someone's recently.  The statement was made that
>we are apes in suits.  I am a creationist and agree with this.  I try to
>get that across to my more "religious" creationist colleagues.  This is
>physiological reality.  Y'all will agree with me there.  But there is
>another "beast" that on the inside of ape with the suit on.  I always tell
>people that we have a readers digest version of origins in Genesis chapter
>one and don't get to the really important thing till chapter 2.  This where
>God breaths a unique kind of cognoscente life into a humanoid.  There is a
>creature under the suit which is an "ape".  There is a creature on the
>inside of the ape - that is spiritual.  Two realities meet that most see as
>in conflict.  I say they are mutually exclusive and thus not conflicting.

Yeah, as long as no one says there is "scientific evidence" for that view
(it is after all a non-testable hypothesis) and takes it on faith, I got no
beef with it.  Makes a lot more sense than many religious doctrines.


Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
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