Fwd: ICR seminar

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--- Bill Hamilton <williamehamiltonjr@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:03:58 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Bill Hamilton <williamehamiltonjr@yahoo.com>
> Subject: ICR seminar
> To: sbcv@sbcv.org, DPeterson@fbcrke.org, CPauley@fbcrke.org,
> DBailey@fbcrke.org, JTate@fbcrke.org, Daniel.Koon@FBCRKE.org,
> RTalmadge@fbcrke.org, JNetzel@fbcrke.org
>
>
>
> I'm writing to you about the ICR seminar "Thousands...Not Billions" Young Age
> of the Earth Conference scheduled to be held May 20th at the First Baptist
> Church in Roanoke, Virginia.
>
> As a member of the American Scientific Affiliation, an organization of
> Christians who work in the sciences, I want to caution you that ICR's views
> are
> considered neither sound science nor sound theology by many Christians in and
> outside of ASA. The evidence for an old earth is significant, and while
> Scripture doesn't explicitly say the earth is old, neither does it explicitly
> say the earth is young. For clues that Scripture may admit an ancient earth,
> look at Genesis 49:26:
> Your father's blessings are greater than the blessings of the ancient
> mountains, than the bounty of the age-old hills. Let all these rest on the
> head
> of Joseph, on the brow of the prince among his brothers.
> and Habakkuk 3:6:
> He stood, and shook the earth; he looked, and made the nations tremble. The
> ancient mountains crumbled and the age-old hills collapsed. His ways are
> eternal.
>
> Would Scripture characterize hills as age-old and mountains as ancient if
> they
> were only a couple thousand years old? There are a number of other Scripture
> passages that imply an ancient earth.
>
> It is possible to reconcile a literal view of Scripture with modern science
> and
> ancient history, as Dick Fisher shows on his web site:
> http://www.genesisproclaimed.org/
>
> You may also find the ASA web site handy: www.asa3.org
>
> Finally you may find "Christianity and the age of the earth" by Davis Young
> helpful. It's available from Amazon.com.
>
> It's crucially important that Christians recognize what scientific
> investigation tells us about the nature we inhabit. If we fail, we will send
> our young people into the universities primed for failure if they want to
> pursue scientific careers. Worse, when they find they have not been told the
> truth by Christians, they may abandon Christianity. We need Christians in
> the
> sciences, just as we need Christians in every other field of endeavor.
>
> Bill Hamilton
> William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
> 248.652.4148 (home) 248.303.8651 (mobile)
> "...If God is for us, who is against us?" Rom 8:31
>
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Bill Hamilton
William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
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"...If God is for us, who is against us?" Rom 8:31

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Received on Mon Apr 17 17:40:37 2006