From: Stephen J. Krogh, P.G. (panterragroup@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Sep 23 2003 - 10:44:25 EDT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
> Behalf Of Dr. Blake Nelson
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:20 AM
> To: Walter Hicks; ASA
> Subject: Re: Questions to Allen Roy
>
>
>
> --- Walter Hicks <wallyshoes@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > Glenn Morton wrote:
> > > You are correct I don't like the appearance of age
> > argument. I think it
> > > makes God out to be a liar.
> >
> > That is a totally unscientific reason and the same
> > claim that YECs make about
> > you. Are you really having trouble seeing that?
>
> I don't support an appearance of age argument either,
> but if that were the case, it wouldn't *necessarily*
> make God either a liar or deceitful.
>
> Sometimes rhetoric gets bandied about rather broadly.
> I have no desire to get into the details of why,
> because I don't think I will convince Glenn. But, it
> does not *necessarily* make God a liar or deceitful
> (even to less of a degree than the canard creation
> science folks argue that OEC makes Jesus a liar).
> Both assertions are merely inaccurate rhetoric without
> a lot more explanation. In both cases, it is my
> opinion that the additional explanation fails to make
> a case for God being a liar.
Maybe not appearance of "age" but an apparent "history" would be by
definition, events that didn't actually happen, so when we observe deep time
events actually occurring, they are really not occurring at all.
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