Steven
This is excellent. Gary Parker was the first American YEC I heard back in 1982.
I will pick up one comment of Parkers
"The lawyer-geologist Lyell was responsible for starting to stretch the time frame and generating disrespect for God's Word. Darwin would never have published his book if Lyell hadn't given him all that time."
This is a totally false statement and is part of the Lyell myth which is held by both creationists and wicked evolutionists!
The vastness of geological time was known a long time before Lyell and in fact decades before Lyell was born in 1797. People both Christian and not were talking of millions from 1770 or so before anyone had heard of evolution.
Lyell wrote in about 1830 and by then I can only think of one geologist who argued for a young earth - George Young a Congregational minister in Yorkshire. Lyell learnt his geology form the Rev William Buckland who talked of millions before 1820 and his friend Conybeare spoke of quadrillions.
All Lyell did was to continue old earth geology with vast timescales and play down catastrophes!!
Michael
Dr. Gary Parker was personable speaker with a big smile and a chuckle (picture available at http://www.answersingenesis.org/events/bio.aspx?Speaker_ID=29). He was enthusiastic and humorous - usually at the expense of scientists, evolutionists, and compromisers (old-earth creationists, ID theorists, theistic evolutionists). His talk was a series of stories. I did not take notes on his stories but simply noted some of his main points. Therefore the following paraphrased quotes may not seem like a coherent argument.
"We live in a corrupted Creation. According to the Bible, there's a perfect start and a perfect end - but we live in the middle."
"Live by God's Word, not man's opinion. The biggest temptation is the one used on Eve in the Garden of Eden: God gave you a brain - use it."
"The creation/evolution issue is not a side issue; it is a fundamental salvation issue. Evolution is an enormous stumbling block and 'millions-of-years' is a big part of the problem."
"The lawyer-geologist Lyell was responsible for starting to stretch the time frame and generating disrespect for God's Word. Darwin would never have published his book if Lyell hadn't given him all that time."
"Time is a characteristic of God. He does things instantly."
"I was saved from the vagaries of man's opinion."
"Our job is not to interpret the Bible - we take it as it is. Interpretation means to take the words and make them mean something different."
"Radioisotope dating has problems. In the Grand Canyon there is a sill, Bass Sill, in the bottom of that canyon that evolutionists say is old. Yet there are lava flows on the rim and spilling into the canyon with radioisotope dates older than Bass Sill. So, according to evolutionists, the Grand Canyon formed upside down!"
"When I was an evolutionist, my biggest objection to the Flood and a Young Earth was radioactive dating. The RATE program began in 1997 to answer these objections."
"Evolutionary Radioisotopic Dating: The faith the facts have failed. The Bible: The faith that fits the facts."
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**Stay tuned for the next installment (sometime next week) - featuring Dr. John Baumgardner: Coal & Diamonds Contain Evidence for Recent Formation**
Steve
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