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Evolution and Sexual Selfishness. December 8, 2021.

Dear Dawson, thanks for your quick reply.

I gather this entire subject has your interest.

So I want to start by picking up on one of the central ramifications

of something I mentioned to you in my first letter.

It is really important that you banish every form of evolutionary thought from your calculations.

The sexual differences between men and women are created, and they were then bent by the fall.

They are not the result of evolutionary quote-unquote strategies with women developing their own set of them and men developing theirs.

The relationship between the sexist is not the result of blind groping at the cellular level, but rather purposive and intentional, a gift from God.

In the former, we have a haphazard arrangement that men and women have to negotiate with their own peculiar sexual goals in mind.

In the latter, we have an intricate organism, meticulously designed by God, one which is accompanied by a user's manual.

And there's a vast difference between life in that first world and life in the second.

More about that in a minute. God created man in his own image, male and female.

Quote, so God created man in his own image, and the image of God created he, him, male and female created he, them, Genesis 1-27.

And in the verse immediately prior to this, he established the cultural mandate for all of humanity, expecting them to exercise dominion over the earth and all of its creatures.

I know you're familiar with the whole concept of intelligence and design when it comes to certain mechanisms like the Falcons Eye, or an eagle's feather, or how the liver functions, or a monkey's tail, or any number of other irreducibly complex interactions.

The complexity of all these things is beyond staggering, and yet the relationship of a man and a woman puts all of them in the shade.

Quote, there be three things which are too wonderful for me.

Yay for which I know not, the way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man with a maid, Proverbs 30, 18 and 19.

The doctrine of creation means that the relationship of a man and a woman is beyond marvelous, but sin has made the relationship between them discordant.

The redemption offered through Christ sets them back on the path again, albeit with more than a few bumps along the way.

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