"Kevin Wampler" <wam### [at] uwashingtonedu> wrote in message 
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> Invisible wrote:
>> Mike Hough wrote:
>>> I would imagine that Man was his first attempt at creating something in 
>>> his own image, much like my attempt at sculpting a bust out of clay my 
>>> first year at community college. There is some pride that goes along 
>>> with the achievement but the result is still flawed.
>>
>> Aren't you forgetting something? HE is Perfect. ;-)
>
>
> You could still hold that since man would be only part of God's creation 
> it's incorrect to consider the "perfection" of a part in isolation of the 
> whole, and since we can't see the whole it's entirely expected that things 
> might look imperfect from our viewpoint.  An analogy would be asking if 
> each note in a very good song is "very good" when considered by itself --  
> the concept isn't really meaningful at that scale.
>
> A bit of a philosophical dodge, I'll admit, but it seems to work in 
> getting the desired answer from those premises.  That said, I find the 
> `lumpy clay bust' theory a somehow more satisfying response to the 
> question.

This reminds me of something I read regarding the idea that the universe is 
infinite. It was argued that although the universe is infinite, there can 
still be a finite number of the possibilities in the infinite universe. Had 
trouble wrapping my mind around that one.

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