Allen Roy wrote to David Siemens
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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
Behalf Of Allen Roy
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 4:40 AM
To: asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: Creation Ex Nihilio and other journals
>>The list of other scientific matters rejected by YEC is, unfortunately,
more extensive-- (A) the source and cooking of
>>petroleum deposits, (B) the amount of vegetable material in coal, (C)
massive halite deposits that are incompatible
>>with deposition by a recent Flood, (D) the size of the universe
(absorption might explain dimming Cepheid variables
>>and novae, but can't produce the Doppler shift), (E) the magnetic pattern
of rocks on either side of the mid-ocean
>>ridges, etc. Either God misleads or YEC lie.
>Points A,B,C and E have all been explained to some degree by Flood
Catastrophists. They are not the overwhelming
>problems as envisioned by some.
>
>I disagree with my YEC friends that the unverse is as young as the Creation
week. I agree that point D, is a problem
>for YECs. Some cosmologies are being proposed and explored, but I don't
find them very convincing. The origins of
>the universe and Flood Catastrophism are mutually exclusive issues. I
focus on Flood Catastrophism and let others
>hash out the origins of the universe.
Do you find it as difficult to understand why your YEC friends won't change
their view in light of the obvious problems they have? Do you see any
correlation between how hard They hold these erroneous views and how you
hold to some of your views? Are you immune to the phenomenon of being
blinded by your own theology, just like your friends who believe what they
do are blinded by their theology?
glenn
see http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/dmd.htm
for lots of creation/evolution information
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