Re: [asa] Old Earth/Young life creationism - (from Oklo as graveyard)

>>> "Iain Strachan" <igd.strachan@gmail.com> 04/17/07 8:47 AM >>>asks:

What I'm wondering is if this view, which he described as "Old Earth/Young
life Creationism" has any following in the mainstream creation/id camps,
and
if so, whether there should be come swift rebuttal along the lines of
"What
about Cerenkov radiation - which is light by any definition you care to
mention?".

Ted responds:
This view, sometimes called the "young/recent biosphere" view, was actually
held in the latter part of his life by George McCready Price. Having been
in conversation (recently, not at the moment) with several YECs, it is my
understanding that a few of the YEC astronomers are toying with this idea,
since they find the evidence for the great age of the universe very strong
and hard to refute. I have exchanged views with a Brazilian ID supporter
who holds this view.

A person called Gorman Gray even defended this idea vs Hovind:
http://www.ageoftheuniverse.com/resources.htm

Other sites:
http://www.sedin.org/propeng/y_o_dbt.htm
http://telicthoughts.com/relativity-and-yec/

The Technical Journal of the CRS had an article about this idea in Fall 05.
 I don't have a copy.

This bypasses the death before the fall issue, which is why (I keep saying)
the YE is in the YEC achronym.

Ted

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Received on Tue Apr 17 10:28:41 2007