On 03-24-98 Frank Masingill wrote to Mark Bloss... 
 FM>...  The "order" of the universe may be easy to talk about but the 
 FM> inevitability of nature "red in tooth and claw" is, sometimes 
 FM> inscrutably, also a vital part of that order and that reality. 
>  Faith must ALSO deal with that.   
Indeed!  Well put.  The Christian cosmology and the depiction of 
the post-flood world stresses the order, 'each after it's own 
kind', and the inevitability of cause and effect, as in lacking 
faith demands damnation. 
 
IMHO, Christian cosmology measures the world with integer math, 
when in fact, it is floating point.  The measuring system looks 
good until you look closely at it.  The amount of aggression in 
a given individual's genome is approximately estimable, but the 
quantity that leads to damnable acts is not determinate; as you 
suggest, it is random chaos that reveals it's presence. 
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