RE: Blind scorpions (or fish) as proof of evolution?

Hi Mike, you wrote:
 
Thank you for the reply. I mean no disrespect, but wouldn't it also be
wise to understand the arguments that creationists, such as AIG, use
before claiming they're incorrect?
 
In the 1982 McLean vs. Arkansas Board of Education decision, Judge
William Overton made this comment:
 
While anybody is free to approach a scientific inquiry in any fashion
they choose,
they cannot properly describe the methodology used as scientific, if
they start
with a conclusion and refuse to change it regardless of the evidence
developed
during the course of the investigation.
 
So, you might ask, why not reach out to those dear ones in brotherly
love, and show them gently the abundant evidence for an old earth? If
we just present all the data, they will see the errors of their ways and
come to enlightenment. Right? Try it!
 
If you tell them about the speed of light and the billions of light
years between earth and distant galaxies, they will tell you the speed
of light may have changed. Demonstrate that radiometric dating confirms
the ages of rocks to billions of years, and they respond there is no way
to know how much decay element God put in when He created the earth in
the first place
.
Explain that it takes millions of years for caves to form stalactites
and massive columns, and they will contend there are stalactites under
the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. Show young-earth
creationists 150 million years of dinosaur history, and you will learn
about the angler in South Africa who landed a coelacanth in 1938.
 
Talk about the layers worn by water erosion in the red wall of the Grand
Canyon where those particular layers were once on the earth's surface,
and prepare to hear that sub-aqueous water seepage could have caused it.
 
Point out that there are layers of salt evaporite deposits, hundreds of
feet thick, well beneath the earth's surface, covered by sedimentary
rock they say was laid down by the flood, and they will respond that
underground volcanoes may have boiled the water beneath the earth's
surface, evaporating the salt out of the sea water in the midst of a
raging, global deluge.
 
Get the pattern? No matter what evidence, or what bit of data, or what
undeniable fact is presented proving the earth is old - and any answer,
no matter how incongruous, or how cockamamie, or how illogical, will
suffice. Do yourself a favor and delete AIG from your list of browser
favorites. Oh, and add the one at the bottom of my signature.
 
I'm curious as to your statement that God is "the first cause of all
events." By this, do you mean that God created and then simply allowed
everything to evolve from non-living matter? Or did God create the
first life form and then allow life to evolve from that point forward?
If such evolution was not directed by God, did it arise by mere chance?
 
Evolution only speaks to natural processes involved through time which
have resulted in better-adapted creatures. Evolution does not speak to
how the universe arose or how life formed on planet earth. You pose a
false dichotomy - either God-directed or mere chance. In God's
foreknowledge he can know the outcome without orchestrating the outcome.
If God directs evolution you must have an explanation for genetic
mistakes resulting in genetic diseases. Does God make mistakes? Does
God cause disease?
 
Dick Fischer
Dick Fischer, Genesis Proclaimed Association
Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
www.genesisproclaimed.org <http://www.genesisproclaimed.org/>
 
Received on Wed May 31 22:18:36 2006