From: Jay Willingham (jaywillingham@cfl.rr.com)
Date: Wed Oct 08 2003 - 18:05:59 EDT
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From: "Michael Roberts" <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk>
To: "Jay Willingham" <jaywillingham@cfl.rr.com>; "ASA" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: RATE
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> > Say the flood occurred before Pangea was broken up in Peleg's time. And
> say
> > there has been recent evidence of accelerated evolutionary processes in
> New
> > World finches, why is this a difficulty?
> >
> > Are there no fossils of the New World opossum's progenitors?
> >
> > Jay Willingham
> >
> >
> I am sorry Jay, but this is a gross misuse of Holy Scripture, which is the
> Word of God. Genesis 10. 25 says "To Eber were born two sons, the name of
> the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided." To force that
> into the break-up of Pangea is on one level so absurd and ridiculous to be
> risible in the extreme. But on another level it is an absolute mockery of
> God's Word. Consider 1 Tim 1.vs 4 "nor to occupy themselves with myths and
> endless genealogies which promote speculations rather than divine
training"
>
> Michael
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>
I have referred to the admonition not to be divided by contentions over such
things. "Endless genealogies" sounds a lot like evolutionary theory, no?
The biblical account is called everything from myth to allegory by many on
this list. Terms like "absurd" and "ridiculous" are pretty divisive and I
could use the same terms to refer to scientific hypothesis that do indeed
mock the word of God as unreliable. I personally find the theory that the
dinosaurs were around for millions of years as pretty "absurd" and
"ridiculous". Of course when I suggest creation might have included
isotopes of all ages, I get told God would not fool scientists and if he did
he is unworthy of worship, a position I find almost blasphemous.
Jay Willingham
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