Re: Kelly Creation and Change

From: george murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 17:40:58 EST

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    "M.B.Roberts" wrote:

    > Yes, I have! It is simply unreconstructed YEC and repeats all the old
    > chestnuts (porkies) of moon dust, circular argument of geological column,
    > decay of speed of light, false arguments for radiometric age dating, Barnes'
    > socalled decay of the magnetic field etc. Infact all the old worhless
    > arguments which have been refuted many times.
    > Oddly the first chapter isnt bad and makes much use of Torrance Jaki etc and
    > even Johnson. He should have realised or admitted that all these do not take
    > Genesis lterally and thus are theologically up the spout.
    > The theology is just assertion and wrongly reckons that Thomas Chalmers
    > invented the Gap Theory in response to geology. Actually it was the dominant
    > view from 1650 .
    >
    > Sorry to be negative but scholars should produce better stuff than this.

            Remember the joke about what the fundamentalist said to the liberal:
    "I'll pretend you're a Christian if you'll pretend I'm a scholar."

    George



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