On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 22:28:16 -0000 "Jim Eisele" <jeisele@starpower.net>
writes:
> << Please tell me where
> science doesn't = Genesis One. >>
>
> Paul, I have read that. And you make some good points (I especially
> like
> the one about the fruit trees). And I guess that you just got
> yourself some
> publicity. But please step up to the plate, and stop hiding behind
> a
> previous paper. What's your biggest beef with the reconciliation
> between
> Genesis One and Science? Bring it on. Let's get it out in the open
> where
> everyone can look at it. If you dare. -Jim
>
>
First, let me present a conversational parable:
A. Show me that stars are developing now.
B. Here are IR plates of the Orion nebula showing . . .
A. I don't accept plates. I can't see IR. I have to see stars forming
now.
B. First, your eyes aren't sensitive enough even in the visible spectrum.
Second, stars don't form in the few minutes during which you can observe.
A. See, you can't prove anything.
Like A, you demand proof on your own terms, which are ridiculous. You
will not accept anything not given in the last five minutes. This gives
you "warrant" (unless i miss my guess) to claim that no one disproved
your view, so it must be right. This is sophistry of the worst sort.
IMO, the brethren have been more polite than warranted. I go by the
scriptural exhortation: "Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will
be wise in his own eyes" (Proverbs 26:5 NIV).
Dave
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