<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jan 4, 2011, at 4:32 PM, spike wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 36px; ">A christian evolutionist is not necessarily a contradiction</span></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>There are christian evolutionists but it is a contradiction, they just live with it the same way all religious people deal with the absurdity of their beliefs, by putting their ideas in little air tight compartments with no way for them to interact with each other. Christians believe in a benevolent God who can do anything, so He could have produced the complexity of our world by just snapping his metaphorical fingers but instead he used Evolution, a hideously cruel process. That is FAR more evil than anything Satan did in the Bible.</div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark </div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1F497D"><br></font></div></body></html>