"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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