RE: The YEC's have won

> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Murphy [mailto:gmurphy@raex.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 9:28 PM\

>
> > Having long advocated that the only way one can stay within
> the data
> > of modern science and at the same time preserve any shred of
> > historicity to Genesis, one must move Adam way way back in time. I
> > prefer further than H. erectus, but few dare tread where I do.
>
> A revealing statement. Does this mean that we don't need to preserve
> historicity but only "a shred" of it? How much is "a shred"?
>
> FWIW, I think a lot of us who don't think we should take the route of
> historical concordism would still say that early Genesis
> contains at least
> "a shred" of historical data. But maybe our shreds aren't big enough.
>
> Happy Easter . Christos aneste!

Happy Easter, Christ is Risen

You and I differ quite significantly on how we define historicity and
have debated it many times. History is what actually happened not a
meta-story about metaphysics. At least that is how I define it.
Received on Sat Mar 26 22:43:14 2005