At 11:08 PM 8/27/98 -0600, Bill Payne wrote:
>Glenn R. Morton wrote:
>
>> And given that even one large meteor could
>> exterminate life, how could Noah survive hundreds of thousands of LARGE
>> meteors coming in during a single year?
>
>Hi Glenn,
>
>The same way the Israelites could survive crossing "through the sea on
>dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left."
>(Exodus 14:25) Since you believe that God held the seawater up in two
>vertical walls with dry ground between, why is it so hard for you to
>believe that Noah could live through a few meteor impacts and some
>stinky gases? Why do you ascribe to God the power to perform a miracle
>for the Israelites but not for Noah? Why are you being so ---
>inconsistent? :-)
Have you never heard of the reductio ad absurdum argument? This is where
you accept the assumption of you opponent and show the consequences are
absurd. The young-earth creationists believe that the global flood is
'scientific' and fits the evidence better than any other idea out there to
explain the geologic column.
"There is certainly no undisputable scientific evidence for evolution and
no real scientific evidence even for an old earth." ~ Henry M. Morris and
Gary E. Parker, What is Creation Science?, (El Cajon: Master Books, 1987),
p. 8
"So the evidence is that there was a flood; that it was more than a
localized flood; and, that it was a flood of global proportions." ~ Carl
Baugh, Panorama of Creation, (Oklahoma City: Southwest Radio Church, 1989),
p. 76
Yet everytime someone presents a problem, they run to explain it by the
miraculous. "God did it and hid the evidence", "God did it miraculously so
there won't be any scientific evidence". I would ask you why do you run
from the evidence and go to the miraculous at every step? Do you believe
that God CAN'T work through the laws of nature He has instituted and so
every time he deals with man he resorts to the miraculous?
As to whether or not I am inconsistent, I am not. I don't believe the
flood was miraculous other than in its timing. The Exodus was miraculous
so I don't marshall scientific evidence to explain it.
glenn
Adam, Apes and Anthropology
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