Re: Challenges to teaching biology

The YEC position seems totally baffling, unless one believes that God
lies, and I fail to see how one could hold that position.

On the way to our cottage there are 50 to 100' cuts through limestone.
I know that if we stop and break pieces of limestone off that the rock
will contain images of living creatures. If the limestone was not
layered and did not contain images of living creatures, then maybe one
could believe that a grown up universe was created. I know there are
lots of other indications of age but this one seems to me so obvious and
conclusive. Not far from here is a 100+' cut in the limestone that was
made in about a century at the end of the last ice age when the great
lakes drained through the Outawais river. While a cut can be made that
quickly, laying down limestone takes much longer. One could argue that
the rate of laying down the limestone was order of magnitude faster than
today, but then why does any science/technology work if the laws of
nature change arbitrarily, the pagans where I grew up believed that and
sacrificed to prevent it happening.

With a global flood and a limited number of life forms saved on the ark,
how does one account for the diversity of life we now find? If they
really believe that evolutionary diversity happens that fast, then what
is the whole issue? Having lived in the tropics the diversity of life
there seems overwhelming compared to northern climates. Even at 4000 to
6000 feet up the diversity is very obvious, let alone down on the savanna..

Since the YEC crowd want to be so simplistic and literal, maybe they
should be pushed all the way, to openness theology. That seems much
more logical to me, given their presuppositions and would allow them to
be much more consistent

Dave Wallace.

Keith Miller wrote:...
Received on Sat Apr 1 19:32:16 2006