From: Josh Bembenek (jbembe@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Oct 06 2003 - 10:01:30 EDT
>At the moment I am choosing not to participate in the argumentation
>concerning specific cataclysmic interpretations of empirical data, but I
>would be interested to hear your testimony concerning why holding to a YEC
>position is so important to you. What is at stake here? If the professional
>science community turns out to be correct on matters of chronology, what
>would be the loss to the Christian faith as you understand it?
Howard, from what I've come to understand the primary importance is being
able to claim that mankind is fallen and that has been inherited from Adam
and Eve. In this view, The Fall requires some kind of mechanistic transfer
into all of humankind from Adam, otherwise we had no fall. This is
partially bolstered by the idea that God looked at His creation and called
it "good." Would the creation of hominids that die, have disease, etc. and
are inherently fallen creatures be "good?"
This is an interesting question.
Josh
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