At 09:31 AM 1/21/98, Moorad Alexanian wrote:
>I am not a YEC nor ever was. I know what science is, by being a physicist,
>and I know what it is to be a Christian. There is a wide area in between the
>content of Scripture and the findings of science. How the two meet in the
>middle is not clear to us and all the suggestions are very speculative. In
>our finiteness, we can never understand the infinite. God could have indeed
>spoken and brought the whole thing, just as we see it today, into being. No
>experimental data can disprove that possibility. Can you disprove that? It
>is all assumptions and people who make different assumptions will reach
>different conclusions. You say that "they place theology above what their
>eyes see" but you know very well that it is not what we see but how we
>interpret what is seen. Therein lies all the arguments. People agree on the
>data, but how to extrapolate from that to the past is where all the
>differences arise.
I strongly disagree with you here. We do not agree on what the data is and
that is a large part of the problem. As noted on this list, YECs believe:
1. the 12 periods of the geologic column nowhere exist in one spot in a
vertical succession. This is wrong.
2. Many young-earth creationists do not believe that overthrust faulting
occurs. That is false and we can see it on seismic.
3. Many young-earth creationists believe that one can place 50+ feet of
water vapor high into the atmosphere and have a cool surface temperature.
That is false. Physics shows that watervapor strongly absorbs infrared
radiation at precisely the wavelengths that the earth radiates.
4. Many young-earth creationists believe that the continents can bob up and
down thousands of feet in days or weeks, (so that the earth can be covered
with water for the flood). The viscosity of the mantle is such that the
motion would take thousands of years.
I don't think we agree at all on what the facts are.
glenn
Adam, Apes, and Anthropology: Finding the Soul of Fossil Man
and
Foundation, Fall and Flood
http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm