THE GARDEN AS A SETUP

Siegfried then moves from the glories of Darwin to the failures of our worldview, and he does so by taking the three swipes, it appears. (Boy, he said a lot in twenty minutes.) The first has to do with this idea that the Garden was a set-up. I must tell you, I agree with him; I believe it was.

Here's the question: Would you rather have a planned crisis or an unplanned crisis? I prefer the latter. Just like me taking my kids to the doctor to get their chicken pox or German measles inoculations, God saw what was coming and decided to manage it. It wouldn't do to have this human eating from this tree and a grandkid eating from that one. He let us go right where we wanted to go, but right out of the gate so as to put all of humanity in one situation where one payment could be made for everyone at one time. A shrewd, risk-management strategy.

(Flagpole number 7 - bam!)