Re: Letter from Reasons to Believe

On Thu, 25 May 2006, Don Nield wrote:

> I agree with Wayne that Hugh Ross is strong on astronomy (as one would
> expect given his backgound) but week on biology and related sciences..
> As I see it, this is related to the fact that Ross interprets the Bible
> in as literal a manner as possible given that his training in astronomy
> prevents him from adopting a YEC view. Even such poetic expressions as
> God stretching out the heavens are related by Ross to scientific
> phenomena -- in this instance the modern view of an expanding universe.
> Such an approach is bound to get him into trouble with inconsistencies
> at some stage.
> Don
>

I appreciate a lot of what Hugh Ross does. However many of his claims of
finding modern science taught in the Bible are far from convincing. In
passages such as Isaiah 42:5 and 44:24 stretching out the heavens is
coupled with spreading out the earth. If stretching out the heavens is the
expanding universe, what is the spreading out of the earth? Claims of
Bible verses teaching modern science would be much more credible if these
interpretations had predated the scientific discoveries.

Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
Received on Thu May 25 14:47:43 2006