Noah and Evolution

Genesis 9: 11"I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall (J)never again be cut off by the water of the flood, (K)neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth."



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After the flood, God told Noah that God would never again wipe the slate clean. That's a good thing to know, considering the swath of mortality in the wake of the Indonesian Tsunami, the continuing threat of nuclear weaponry in irresponsible hands, and the spectre of avian flu.

I wonder about this promise [my wife Linda occasionally asks in exasperation: "what are you thinking?"; and the answer is invariably "nothing"; but for the record, I'm wondering....].

And I wonder about the theory of evolution, and why that is so abhorrent to fundamentalist thinkers. To me, evolution is the Master Plan, and when you look deep into the heart of a genetics textbook, you see the intelligence behind the Plan. And when you step back and look at the whole of it, the progress of evolution as God's program for the maintenance of life here on Earth, it's reassuring.

Because epidemiologists know, not everyone is felled by nasty bugs. Because evolution has caused beings to vary. And natural selection works through the accidents of immunity, to always leave a few survivors. Even the most horrible epidemic in recent memory, the Pandemic Influenza of 1918, struck mostly 20-40 year-olds and bypassed children and the elderly.

So, we should properly consider Evolution and the system of Natural Selection, as essential parts and concrete evidence of the Noahic Covenant.

Evolution: God's promise to us.