Re: Re: serious

From: Drsyme <drsyme@cablespeed.com>
Date: Wed Jan 07 2004 - 14:22:33 EST

Is this meant to be a joke?  Is this tounge in cheek?

I mean no offense but why would you call them liars?  It is this attitude,  considering them dirt etc. that disturbs me about some YEC  proponents.  You admit to accepting the fruits of scientific inquiry, so you must think that the reasoning is sound.  Then why, just because a conclusion that is derived from scientific evidence, contradicts a "favorite" interpretation of the bible, would you consider them liars?  That makes no sense to me.  Maybe the interpretation is wrong, that is possible!

I dont relly know your views, you may not be a YEC'er, and are just spoofing them with this post.  But if that is your view, how to you explain your inconsistency?

Do you realize that MRI scanners, and GPS satellites, have to make relativistic corrections?

------- Original Message --------
From: "Howard J. Van Till"
To: "wallyshoes"
CC: asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: serious
Date: 07/01/04

>From: wallyshoes

> It is philosophy (i.e. "God would not lie in
> nature"), not TODAY'S science, that discredits the YEC belief that
> everything, (including scientific laws!) was created about 6000 years
> ago. If we refuse to accept that, then why should YECs accept our
> viewpoint? If I were in their position, I certainly would not. I would
> instead consider scientists to be an arrogant lot who are not to be
> trusted.

Yes, but with some interesting exceptions. As a typical YEC, I would want
the best and latest knowledge from medical science when I am faced with a
serious illness. I would also be tickled pink with the fruits of modern
solid state physics as I celebrate the enormous number of electronic gadgets
that now fill my home and car. I would also welcome the system of satellites
in orbit around the Earth that facilitate my reception of television,
internet, and weather information. I would even celebrate what the
geological sciences know to make available that inexpensive gasoline that I
buy for my fleet of V8 vehicles.. Yes, I would celebrate the natural
sciences and all of the technologies based on them EXCEPT when those same
sciences, employing the same patterns of reasoning, reach a conclusion that
challenges some favorite interpretation of the Bible. THEN I would consider
the scientific community as dirt under my feet, and I would feel perfectly
justified to think of them as no more than a pack of arrogant liars.

Howard Van Till

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