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Presidential Election Yields <BR>2008's Top 10 Religion Stories <BR> <BR><a href="http://www.adventistreview.com/article.php?id=2301" target=_top>http://www.adventistreview.com/article.php?id=2301</a>
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Where's the Bride? <BR> <BR><a href="http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2191" target=_top>http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2191</a> <BR> <BR>Unique advertising for subscriptions, but isn't it a little blasphemous or sacrilegious?? Doesn't play off SDA's history of time setting???
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Intelligent Design <BR> <BR><blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1><b>quote:</b></font><p>... <BR> <BR>Objections <BR> <BR>If ID is finding good arguments that a Creator is needed to account for the existence of life, why would people-even some Christians-object to it? There are three main groups, each with its own reasons. <BR> <BR>1. Folk in the first group deny there is a designer. Or if there is, that he certainly was not involved in the origin of life or of the universe. It isn’t hard to understand why this group would oppose ID, since they don’t believe in a deity at all. (I’ve not met any Seventh-day Adventists in this group.) <BR> <BR>2. The second group includes theistic evolutionists, who believe God used the evolution process over many millions of years as His means for creating. They don’t believe God was directly active in the evolution process, however. To them the “apparent” design in nature is actually the result of natural selection, not from direct design by the Creator. They commonly believe that God allowed the universe to “make itself” through chance mutations and natural selection.4 There are some Adventists in this second group, in spite of theological conflicts over the origin of sin and evil that result from this view.5 Theistic evolution doesn’t deny the existence of God, but does deny that life was divinely designed, and thus theistic evolutionists oppose ID. <BR> <BR>3. There is a third group of objectors to ID, and this group has a very different reason for their opposition. This group, which includes some Seventh-day Adventists, objects to ID because ID stops short of typical conservative Christian beliefs. ID doesn’t concern itself with the age of the earth or the age of life, and it doesn’t identify the God of the Bible as the designer. Nor does it advocate the Flood or a literal Creation week. ID seeks to make just one point: life is too complex to arise without intelligent design. <BR> <BR>This third group of objectors maintains that since ID doesn’t include a biblical creation, a flood, or the biblical God in its logical arsenal, ID is to be rejected. A literal understanding of the Genesis account of Creation and the Flood is dear to the heart of Adventists. It’s part of the biblical plan of salvation and what we call “the great controversy.” Given all this, ID isn’t considered a good idea, unless it openly supports these beliefs. <BR> <BR>...<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote> <BR> <BR>Read the whole article: <BR> <BR><a href="http://www.adventistreview.com/issue.php?issue=2009-1509&page=18" target=_top>http://www.adventistreview.com/issue.php?issue=200 9-1509&page=18</a>
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