Re: [asa] Two questions...

What I am trying to do is merely read the biblical text literally. In
contrast, you are taking just the six days, without all the rest of the
message that would have been clear to those reading the original about
the time it was written. YEC glosses over most of the explicit
statements. A parallel would be to extoll the Inquisition for standing up
for the explicit statements of scripture against Galileo's revisionism.
Dave (ASA)

On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 22:09:24 -0600 Douglas Hayworth
<haythere.doug@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:40 PM, D. F. Siemens, Jr.
> <dfsiemensjr@juno.com> wrote:
> were. They also ignore the fact that the moon is a light as much as
> the
> > sun is, so it cannot merely reflect sunlight. The change in
> meaning is so
> > familiar that Hayworth does not recognize it as a change.
>
>
> I think you've understood exactly the opposite of what I intended
> to
> convey. You are describing concordist versions of YEC (i.e.,
> examples
> of trying to make the biblical descriptions make sense
> scientifically). What I said was that straightforward YECs (by which
> I
> meant those unadulterated YECs who simply believe in 6-day creation
> on
> biblical grounds only, and don't care that the scientific evidence
> doesn't support it -- perhaps appealing to the appearance of age)
> are
> internally consistent theologically. I realize that the vast
> majority
> of passionate YECs are in fact extremely concordist, too. Sorry if
> that distinction was not clear in my original comment. My point was
> that it is concordism that is the problem (not specifically whether
> it
> is of an OEC or YEC variety). There is a version of YEC that
> doesn't
> require concordism (i.e., appearance of age YEC), but there is not
> to
> my knowledge any version of OEC that does not depend heavily on
> concordism.
>
> Doug
>
>
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