Bill,
You wrote, in response to Glen Morton,
"... 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)."
I don't quite agree that there is no difference. There is no physical
evidence left of a floating ax head, but there is ample physical evidence in
God's general revelation that strongly suggests that it took longer than
6000 years for the earth to get to the stage we find it in today. I could
even accept the concept of a god who created the earth and, with it,
evidence that would strongly suggest a very old earth, just to tempt
believers, but, somehow, I can't imagine the God of the Bible doing that.
Even if one accepts a 6-day "flurry of creation" as described in Genesis 1,
there's the flood to deal with. It occurred well after creation and well
after considerable human activity.
Chuck Vandergraaf
> 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.
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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