Yes there really are people who believe that, I know its hard to believe, but its true. God wanted to make a material world, he wanted to make men, animals, and inanimate materials. What was he supposed to make them of if not atoms, molecules, and genetic material? So along comes our materialist or naturalist or mechanist and declares that nothing exists except the afore mentioned particles and components. What they fail to notice is that without man, animals, vegatation, minerals, individual existing natures and substances, the world has absolutely no meaning, truth, or significance.
Yes indeed. Men have a human nature, a body and an intellecutal soul. And the atoms, molecules, genes which serve as his constituent matter are what God used to make men. They, all together, mixed and combined is a specific way, constitute the particular matter which God determined was suited to the kind of soul he was going to unite with the bodies of men. So man is a specific substance, a specific nature which just happens to have a body constructed the way and out of the materials God deemed best. And that is the total significance of man’s material parts, they are suited to the nature of man, they serve the purposes of his nature. And thus they serve God’s purposes.
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