Re: [asa] RATE revisited

Randy:
I would be wary about getting involved with that. One problem lies in
the disparity between that and the rest of the RATE research.
My comments are based on Chapter 10 of "Thousands .. Not Billions" by
Don deYoung, reporting research by Steven Boyd.
The material can hardly be described as theological. Rather, it is very
limited. It involves a formal use of a statistical method to show that
the grammatical aspect of the word usage in Genesis 1:1-2:3 is typical
of narrative passages rather than poetic passages. But nobody has
questioned that. Indeed, the use of the waw-consecutive construction is
enough to show that. Boyd then makes a huge non sequitur in claiming
that the narrative passage has to be historical. Thus Boyd's research is
actually irrelevant to the RATE research with radioisotopes.
Don

Randy Isaac wrote:
> Most of you will have received your March 2008 issue of PSCF by now. International recipients may take a little longer. The exchange of letters with the RATE team was unfortunately constrained by space. Therefore, we created a webpage to provide more indepth analysis. If you're interested, the website is here. We hope to add material as appropriate.
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> In particular, I'd be interested in adding theological material. So far, we focused only on the science. Yet someone should address the RATE teams biblical interpretation. Their chapter on that topic contributed a detailed statistical analysis of verb-form usage to show that Genesis 1 had to be interpreted as a historical narrative and therefore literal. If any of you know good material to address that, please let me know.
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> Randy
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Received on Tue Feb 26 18:50:33 2008