On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 21:02:38 -0700 David F Siemens <dfsiemensjr@juno.com>
writes:
> I must disagree with Allen's claim, for YEC only accept those areas of
> physics which fit their purpose. [snip]
>
> I contend that I do not have the option of deciding which of God's
> physical laws I will accept because they agree with what I want to
> believe, and which I will reject.
If you accept God's physical laws as being immutable, then you must
reject the floating axhead of 2 Kings 6. If you accept that event as a
miracle, then what rational basis do you have for claiming that God did
not suspend his physical laws at other times?
> The list of other scientific matters rejected by YEC is,
unfortunately,
> more extensive--the source and cooking of petroleum deposits, the
amount
> of vegetable material in coal, massive halite deposits that are
> incompatible with deposition by a recent Flood, the size of the
universe
> (absorption might explain dimming Cepheid variables and novae, but
> can't produce the Doppler shift), the magnetic pattern of rocks on
either
> side of the mid-ocean ridges, etc. Either God misleads or YEC lie.
Oh really? YECs might say that OECs create a box to contain God within
the few specified miracles of the Bible, thereby excluding Him from
interaction with the rest of His creation. Philosophically, there is no
difference in saying in His Word that He made an axhead float (in
violation of the law of gravity) and saying that He created the universe
in six days (in violation of all that other stuff).
OEC: "Would God lie?" YEC: "Did God stutter?"
Bill Payne
Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written
down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the
books that would be written. John 21:25
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