Re: [asa] YEC--What can we offer them?

<p>......&gt;   &gt;   &gt; However when we look at YEC &quot;science&quot; &gt; no matter how charitable we are we simply have to say that it is &gt;   &gt; TOTALLY AND UTTERLY &gt; WRONG &gt;   &gt; There are very few scientific ideas &gt; from the past we could describe like that e.g. Clerk-Maxwell's ether, &gt; phlogiston, Copernicus and his circular orbits, or even ANE ideas of a flat &gt; earth!!! &gt;   &gt; Science progresses by researchers &gt; finding that predecessors were partly wrong and often realise why they were &gt; partly wrong. &gt;   &gt; Michael &gt; &gt;</p><p>I think one has to be careful about saying that even some of these examples are completely &quot;wrong.&quot;  E.g., the ANE flat earth (&amp; I'm talking now only about the shape of the earth, not the heavenly dome &amp;c) was a decent approximation to the portion of the earth to which people in ancient Sumeria, Palestine &amp;c had access.  If someone asks me to sketch a map of how to get from Ak
 ron to Columbus I'll do it as if the earth is flat.  Again, it's an approximation - you can approximate a small portion of the surface of a sphere by a tangent plane.  Of course it's a quite different matter for people who have access to data about more extensive portions of the earth to claim that it's a sphere.</p><p>Shalom,</p>
George

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