Bill Payne wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 14:07:34 -0700 John W Burgeson <burgytwo@juno.com>
> writes:
>
> > One thing seems
> > certain. If one posits fiat creation of any kind, an appearance
> > of age must be a part of that hypothesis. That fact makes
> > scientific tests of the claim difficult, if not wholly
> > impossible, leading to the observation that "Scientific
> > Creationism" is simply an oxymoron.
>
> As I see it, either God created from nothing, or else the universe is
> eternal (a thought which comes from the late apologist, Walter Martin).
> An if the universe is eternal, then the phrase "In the beginning..."
> loses all meaning. How can a Christian possibly avoid a belief, at some
> level, in "unreal history?" Is it not just a matter of where we choose
> to place the boundary between unreal and real history?
As I pointed out in my post to Burgy, belief that God is the creator
of an evolving big bang
universe (I'm abbreviating a lot there) avoids the problem of "unreal
history." This is just one way in which such a cosmology is an advance over
a static one.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
"The Science-Theology Interface"
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