At 10:43 PM 7/12/99 +0100, Vernon Jenkins wrote:
>Responding to your comments, let me say:
>
>1) In my view, your understanding of 'cognitive dissonance' falls short,
>and tends to trivialise this important matter. It is surely something
>stronger and more subtle than a mere 'aversion'!
That is what I thought when I was a YEC also. I was wrong. It is the
refusal to acknowledge contradictory information and incorporate it into
one's world view. It is displayed as a insistence that one is correct even
if the entire world is against him.
>
>2) Your understanding of God's faithfulness also needs looking at a
>little more closely. You claim that God will honour the natural laws
>because He is trustworthy. But, in that case, what of miracles? Does not
>His transient suspension of these same laws from time to time amount to
>'untrustworthiness', in your view?
I didn't say God couldn't overcome his own laws. I will rephrase my
statement. God will, under non-miraculous circumstances honor the laws he
set in motion.
>3) As one who so clearly respects empirical evidence, I am surprised
>that you consistently refuse to acknowledge the numerical miracle of
>Gn.1:1, and incorporate it into your thinking. Can you explain why you
>are content to ignore this whilst accepting other matters as 'fact' on
>greatly inferior evidence?
I see no numerical miracle in Genesis 1:1. I see a bit of self-delusion
because numeralogy brings out numerous surprises. As I told you long ago
about the passage in Moby Dick which predicted an assassination through
numeralogy. Coincidences happen.
glenn
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