From: John W Burgeson (jwburgeson@juno.com)
Date: Sat Oct 11 2003 - 15:07:57 EDT
>>they (ICR, AOSA and AIG) put out trash, garbage, and misleading junk.>>
My all too long fascination with YEC happened because I did not examine
their claims closely. It ended (rather abruptly) when I did so. The
Barnes' magnetic field claim was the first to go. When I found his
original claim, and how he "fit" the data, I was, frankly, astounded, for
I could see no way in which a physicist, properly trained, could have
made such a terrible error. And Barnes was not only a Ph.D. trained
physicist, he was also a Professor of Physics at a large and respected
University (U of Texas El Paso, I believe) and also a professing
Christian. It took some time before I came to realize that all the above
was even possible as attributes of one single human being.
"Trash, garbage and misleading junk" is too kind a description, Glenn.
Horse hockey comes closer. Yet it, too, is far too mild a descriptor.
Perhaps I Ki 14:10 is a descriptor: " I will burn up the house of
Jeroboam as one burns dung, until it is all gone. " Or maybe Job 20:7:
"he will perish forever, like his own dung." No, that's too harsh.
Morris, Gish, Ham and the others will have much to apologize for on the
other side. But apologies will be a few fleeting moments in eternity.
A clarification is in order. I do not claim that the YEC position is
falsified. It may be (.01% probability) true. What I do claim is that the
ICR/AIG "scientific" arguments for that position are bogus in the
extreme. Gosse may have been right after all. If ICR et. al. would stick
to Gosse's scenario, I'd have little problem with their religious
outlook.
Burgy
www.burgy.50megs.com
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