Traducianism vs Creationism
Here is another debate that baffles me, that between traducianism and creationism. Creationism is not here the doctrine that God created the world in 6 literal 24-hour days, but the view that God creates every human soul directly. Traducianism is the view that reproduction involves not just the creation of the bodies of infants, but also the creation of the souls.
Can anybody out there cast any light on this debate? There is an article on traducianism here. You can read Turretin's defence of creationism here.
Can anybody out there cast any light on this debate? There is an article on traducianism here. You can read Turretin's defence of creationism here.
posted by Daniel Hill | 6/17/2006 10:59:00 am
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I've just written a refutation of Turretin's defense, here:
http://www.light-after-darkness.org/forums/content.php?40-Turretin-on-Traducianism%2C-Refuted
Ultimately, the debate is meaningless. We could not know the answer for certain. Since a massive number of zygot/foetises are spontaneously aborted, it would make little sense to advocate traducianism if one believes that God is involved in any way in the appearance of the soul in the foetus. The notion that the zygot is a "person" from the moment of impregnation is also highly questionable for the same reason.
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