Shuan and George wrote:
>>
>> Shuan wrote:
>> So where are the fingerprints demanded by Mr. Morton? :)
>
> Glenn wants evidence that scripture is historically accurate.
>I have debated
>that extensively with him (without wanting at all to say that there
>is no verifiable
>history in scripture.) But he has not to my knowledge demanded
>"fingerprints" as has
>blatantly as Philip Johnson.
Let me see if I can clarify these muddy waters without stirring up that
brown muck at the water's bottom.
We can NEVER prove the Scriptural account. That is simply impossible. But
we can verify certain things. I would claim that the difference between me
and Johnson is that I would like to see something historically true in the
accounts. I wouldn't believe much of the New Testament if it claimed that
Jesus was raised under the tyranny of the great Carthagenian empire who
gained ascendancy in the three great Romanic wars. For the same reason I
don't believe the book of Mormon, because it's new world history is a fraud
and a shame. Native Americans didn't have chariots or horses. Nor did they
have huge walled cities in northern North America. I see no reason to
change my standard of truth when it comes to the Scripture.
I am often accused of wanting everything proven, but that isn't the case. I
think I would prefer to push as hard as I can towards that point, but
knowing all the time that it will never happen.
Johnson and the ID group wants a natural theological proof of God's
existence. They are looking for the type of proof which Sagan gives at the
end of his book Contact (which I liked better than what was offered in the
movie). In the book, they found a message buried deeply in the random
numbers of pi. Dembski's claim to have mathematized design won't be
remembered past this generation.
glenn
see http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/dmd.htm
for lots of creation/evolution information
anthropology/geology/paleontology/theology\
personal stories of struggle
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