Re: Is the Hills' flood possible?

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From: <glennmorton@entouch.net>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>; <Philtill@aol.com>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: Is the Hills' flood possible?
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> GRM: Phil, if it takes one miracle to make the flood happen, then it is
> meaningless
> to use all this science and math to try to prove that the flood happened.
> I have
> argued with YECs about this for years. Once you bring a miracle in, you
> have thrown
> out naturalism and there is no reason to be scientific. It would just be
> better to
> simply say, â?oThe mesopotamian flood was a miracleâ? and leave it at
> that rather than
> try to have a pseudo-scientific appearance.
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This point that Glenn makes is a good one which I have emphasized with other
YEC attempts to give supposedly scientific explanations of their schemes -
e.g., Humphreys' cosmology. As far as scientific explanation is concerned,
natural processes plus a miracle is a miracle.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
Received on Fri Jun 9 11:54:05 2006