>>PROGRESSIVE CREATIONISTS
But the Progressive Creationists do the very same thing. They use the
canonical text to hold to their view of reality. The PC's believe that
the
Bible teaches the following doctrines:
7- long ages during which animals were miraculously created.
special creation of animals
special creation of men
local flood
genealogies 'stretchable' to between 60 and 100 thousand years, thus an
old
earth.
But in accepting this as the canon, the PCs reject areas of science they
don't like. They reject areas of:
biology--There is no evolution, no genetic relationships. Similarity
MUST
mean design or special creation both of animals and men is wrong.
paleontology--there are no transitional forms. It ignores the fact that
there is a morphological gradational series between H. erectus and H.
sapiens which has taken place over the past million years. They also
reject
the observational paleontological data that proves that the order of
events
in those 7 days is NOTHING like the order found in the rocks. Some, like
Hugh Ross, try to say that the sun didn't shine on the earth's surface
until the Devonian period approximately. This ignores stromatolites made
in the Precambrian or Banded iron formations which are believed to be
varves deposited by microbial photosynthetic activity.
anthropology--fossil man is not evidence of evolution. They insist that
mankind was created less than 100 kyr ago and thus ignore the abundant
data
for human-like activity prior to that time and ignore the data for
religious activity.
geology--Since most of them place the local flood in the Mesopotamian
valley, they reject the data of geology which shows clearly that no LARGE
scale flooding of that valley, sufficient to wipe out everyone in the
valley, took place during the Holocene.
archaeology--rejects the observation that there was NO interruption of
Mesopotamian civilization between 10,000 years BP and the present.
Thus the PCs use the canonical text for assurrance that their view of
reality--i.e. no evolution, is true and they reject whatever observation
disagrees with that view.>>
Glenn -- this is a parody of the PC position -- at least "MY" PC
position. I take issue with almost every assertion you have made in the
above.
I will agree that what you have written is "A" possible PC position -- I
suspect it is not the position of anyone I have ever met! Not even Steve
Jones!
Keep trying.
Burgy
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