From: allenroy (allenroy@peoplepc.com)
Date: Fri Oct 10 2003 - 16:18:38 EDT
Walter Hicks wrote:
>> Glenn's assessment is probably correct in that no fact or data could ever change your view. If I am wrong,
>> could you tell me what data might? If I am not wrong, then what is the purpose behind any discussion?
>>
> You have ignored it twice.
I have said many times here that there is a BIG difference between raw data and
data that has been interpreted within a paradigm. Nearly all of the data Morton
uses is interpretation within Naturalism. Do I ever, ever, ever take such
interpreted data at face value? Never. The raw data that is beneath the
interpreted data must be found and then interpreted within a Creationary
Cataclysmic paradigm. I do not reinterpret the Bible to fit data interpreted
within naturalism. I start with the Bible and then look at raw data and
interpret it within the Biblical paradigm. The Bible ALWAYS comes first. The
data must be interpreted within it. This is the very thing that the early
Christian scientists/naturalists of the 16, 17 and 18th Centuries either forgot
or became persuaded that they had to set aside their belief system. And by
setting aside their belief system, they then accepted, likely unknowingly, the
atheistic system of Naturalism by default. Science is not neutral and has never
been neutral. There is no such thing as neutral empirical data. All data is
interpreted whether one even knows it or not. Why do you think I posted the
stuff by Del Ratszch?
I find the "facts" Morton points to as interesting and a challenge, but they are
ALWAYS interpretation of data within Naturalism. What I search for is
interpretation of the data that can fit within the Biblical world view. I do
not search for ways to fit the Bible into interpreted data from Naturalism.
Any and all isometric dating done on phanerozoic rock is irrelevant because I'm
convinced that the Phanerozoic rock is largely cataclysmic deposition related to
the Flood. All fossils in the Phanerozoic are also related to the Flood.
Therefore, there is NO ancient history of life to be read from the Phanerozoic.
Rather, the Phanerozoic is a record of thousands of events that were part of a
global cataclysm.
Do I have all the answers with respect to the Phanerozoic in relationship to the
Flood? No. But that does not mean that there can never be or will never be
cataclysmic answers.
Allen
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