RE: [asa] Rudwick does it again (back to Adam)

The church fathers had a degree of science. For example, they probably knew the Earth wasn't flat, unlike the person who wrote Genesis and the original audience for Genesis?

...Bernie

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Subject: RE: [asa] Rudwick does it again (back to Adam)

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Dehler, Bernie wrote:

> What do the church fathers have to do with it? My point is that Genesis was written by an ancient Jew, and the ancient Jews mostly took it literal because it was the "science of the day." Most modern thinkers don't take it literally now. Obviously there's a grey zone of transition between the ancients and the modern. The church fathers are in a transition point, I think.
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> ...Bernie
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Bernie,

The point is that the church fathers were not influenced by modern
science. When they asked how there could be a solar day with no sun or
noted that wind does not lower sea level, the science they were using was
exactly the same as was known to the author of Genesis.

When YECs claim that interpretations contrary to theirs occurred only
after the rise of modern science, they are simply making assumptions
without doing the research. That also applies to others who don't question
this YEC claim.

Gordon Brown (ASA member)

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Received on Mon Aug 18 12:38:39 2008