Re: Comet Orbits

From: John W Burgeson (burgytwo@juno.com)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2001 - 13:45:04 EST

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    Steve -- you wrote:

    "> You are disagreeing with what?
    >
    > (1) It would not be in the best interest for YECs to propose a
    > "deceptive God."
    >
    > or
    >
    > (2) a "deceptive God" is a result when the implications drawn from
    > the "appearance of age" argument are taken to a
    > logical conclusion."
    >
    The second of these; I can see I wrote with less than sterling precision.
    Apologies.

    In your original post, you wrote:

    > > "I don't think it would be in the best interest for a YEC to
    > > actually propose a deceptive God, although that is a result when the
    > > implications drawn from the "appearance of age" argument is taken
    > >to a logical conclusion."
    > >

     I disagreed with the part of your post which begins with "although... ."

     My specific claim is that Gosse's book, which is
     in print BTW, makes a credible, if not persuasive (to me) argument
     that a "deceptive god hypothesis" is not necessary.

    It is your claim that "a deceptive god" is the necessary result
    of taking a YEC position. My citation of Gosse's book is simply
    to point out that while that may be a possible result, it is not
    a necessary one.

    Burgy
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