From: Gary Collins (gary@algol.co.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 06:45:51 EST
Hello List,
Alan Hayward discusses the 'apparent age' theory briefly in
'Creation and Evolution - the Facts and the Fallacies.'
He points out that instant (or nearly instant) creation would
inevitably carry appearance of age. An instantly created oak
tree might look as if it were hundreds of years old.
Similarly, when Jesus turned the water into wine, it would have
given the appearance of having matured over a long time.
However, many of the appearances of age we see in the
Creation would not seem to fall into the category of being
_necessary_. It is as though Jesus, when he turned the water
into wine, had also created some labels displaying a vintage
year from a Galilean wine merchant. That would have been
an act of deceit.
/Gary
"By tying up the weak case for a young earth in the same package as the strong case for creation, recent-creationists are almost asking to be defeated."
-- Alan Hayward, "Creation and Evolution: The Facts and Fallacies," p.81
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