Re: YEC literature [was Re: RATE Vol. II]

I very much sympathize with your problem, since space is limited. It may
be necessary to deal with one or a few related points at a time, for
there are many. The thing that got to me was the age determined from
radioisotopes, which the RATE guys have tried to address, improperly. The
conclusion I came to was that the problem was not with what the Bible
said, but what people said it said. But I'm not sure that will be easily
communicated to those who did not nave my background and nature.

Perhaps you need to hang a picture of Hydra as inspiration for the task.
Dave

On Thu, 25 May 2006 23:01:37 -0400 "Robert Schneider"
<rjschn39@bellsouth.net> writes:
> Thanks, Bill.
>
> I think one complication is that we Christians interpret the nature
> of
> "inspiration" in different ways. Henry Morris, Sr., took the Bible
> as "the
> Word of God" = "the words of God," and God's words are plain enough
> for him
> to understand that God is teaching us a six-day creation of a young
> earth.
> One has to observe the way he consistently reads into the text
> notions that
> plainly are not stated there, or even hinted at, and show his
> fanciful
> eisegeses for what they are. It's going to be a tough task to put
> this part
> of the critique into a couple of pages.
>
> Bob
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Hamilton" <williamehamiltonjr@yahoo.com>
> To: "Robert Schneider" <rjschn39@bellsouth.net>; "Randy Isaac"
> <randyisaac@adelphia.net>; <asa@calvin.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:16 PM
> Subject: Re: YEC literature [was Re: RATE Vol. II]
>
>
> >
> >
> > --- Robert Schneider <rjschn39@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> To all of you, a request: what are the most salient points do you
> think
> >> one
> >> should make in writing an essay that presents and then critiques
> the YEC
> >> message? Such feedback would be most helpful
> >>
> > I suggest early on making the point that as Christians we believe
> the
> > Bible to
> > be the inspired word of God. The issue is not whether the Bible is
> the
> > inspired
> > word of God, but how we are to understand what it teaches.
> >
> > Bill Hamilton
> > William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
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> > "...If God is for us, who is against us?" Rom 8:31
> >
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Received on Fri May 26 00:46:19 2006