Re: More on Florida

Iain

To quote Darwin to Lyell in 1845 "You are a heretic and know it"!! You are clearly not reading Holy Writ aright!!!

More seriously I totally agree with you and am concerned how any reference in the NT to creation is so often taken to prove a young earth, even if, as in every case, it says nothing about it. On of the worst examples is in Douglas Kelly's Creation and Change where he gives a very long list of NT texts which support a young earth. None do. BTW I think he did his Ph D under Tom Torrance.

I came across someone who was expelled from BJU for heresy, so I told him that was to his credit.

All this highlights the need for decent biblical interpretation

Michael
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Iain Strachan
  To: Carol or John Burgeson
  Cc: asa@calvin.edu
  Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 8:34 AM
  Subject: Re: More on Florida

  On 10/12/05, Carol or John Burgeson <burgytwo@juno.com> wrote:
  <quote from "Life science for Christian Schools"

    The Bible tells us that God directly created all things (John 1:3).

  It doesn't. It says (John 1:3):

  3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

  I am one of those things that have been made, but as far as I'm aware my parents "directly" made me; something that would be impossible were it not for the fact that God is Creator and Sustainer of the universe (without him nothing was made that has been made).

  [ Actually I've always thought it was the stork ... ]

  Iain
   

    The
    Bible contradicts the theory of evolution. In doing so, the Bible does
    not contradict true science, since evolution is not science."

    --From a seventh-grade Bob Jones science book, Life Science for Christian
    Schools, which has a subchapter titled "How Biological Evolution
    Supposedly Took Place."

    [http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/state/epaper/2005/10/09/a1
    2a_creation_side_1009.html]

    jb

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