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on the Bible and Science - Origins
The Grand Canyon and its strata are undisputed facts, but how it came to be is anything but undisputed along with all of our world's geological features. Evolutionists announce with confidence that the Cambrian deposits occurred 550 million years ago while creationists believe almost all of earth's major sediments were laid down by a recent (perhaps 4500 years ago) worldwide flood as described in Genesis 7. The academic, political, and intellectual worlds are dominated by the evolutionary view but within the last 50 years there has been a modest but persistent and growing renaissance of "Flood geology." The cross section map in conjunction with this paper will support the creationist view. Continue reading
The
review was published in TJ (Technical Journal) of
Answers in Genesis. Frank DeRemer, who reviewed the book by Gorman Gray, The Age of the Universe: What Are the Biblical Limits? has "problems" with it, based chiefly on three stated items (TJ 19(2) 2005 p51). 1) My contention that a "cloud of thick darkness" (Job 38:9) remained over the surface of the primordial ocean for an undefined length of time, perhaps megayears, leaves the first day with no evening and therefore it is only a half day. 2) My rendition of "tohu" as deserted, uninhabited or desolate (v2) should be abandoned in favor of the common "formless." 3) "Heavens" (v1) should refer to space, not stars, and "earth" should refer, not to our planet but to the universal water out of which God later crafted every material thing. When Bible believers differ, especially on emotionally charged subjects, often the words become harsh even when not intended that way, so I want to preface my rejoinder with I Peter 3:8, "Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another, love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous ..." That is the way I want it to be received. We agree on so much. The chief disagreement reduces to my refusal to put a date on Genesis 1:1. Continue reading
The review was published
in Bibliotheca Sacra, October-December 2005
issue.
This review was published
in Creation Research Society Quarterly March,
2006. Those who hold the theory of a primeval universe compacted out of water depend on a faulty interpretation of II Peter 3:5. "For this they willingly forget that by the word of God the heavens were of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, by which the world that then was perished, being overflowed with water" (NKJV, and compare KJV and Living Bible). The water-universe view prefers the NIV, NASB, RSV translations--earth "formed out of water" and the ASV earth "compacted out of water" --but these latter are misleading translations for the following reasons. Peter is not providing new revelation regarding the composition of the earth but he is reminding us of the already established revelation in Genesis. Continue reading
The religious elites were fond of attacking the credibility of the Bible based on alleged scientific inaccuracies. "With monotonous regularity," Kirtley Mather argued, "the world discovers that science is right, that theology is wrong." Riley observed, however, that when "liberals have a conflict of science and scripture, they automatically dismiss scripture for science. Not because science has been proven true, but simply because they hold it to be a higher authority than the Bible." Straton added, "They dogmatize, too, not on the authority of a Divine revelation that has justified its claim for centuries, but only on their own hypotheses, theories and beliefs of what they think ought to be right." The real issue was the detachment of the book of nature from the book of scripture, often referred to as general revelation and specific revelation by theologians." Continue reading (an excerpt from Reclaiming the Two Books of God)
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"A cloud of witnesses" Note: The following materials show that other writers have made conclusions similar to Mr. Gray on some of the interpretations in his book, The Age of the Universe: What Are the Biblical Limits? However, there are notable differences and none of the references below are in any way a complete biblical picture; some contain what the author regards as important errors along with some important truth. Readers are urged to absorb the complete picture as presented in the book.
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