(October 12, 2016 at 7:37 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote: However, I don't think that a priori belief is a reason to reject these accounts. A lot of the arguments here, I think give justification to some young earth or evolution views which simply state, that cannot happen, regardless of evidence.
With regard to evolution, I'm probably a little on your side. Evolution is a lot more abstract than people make it out to be. As for young Earth views-- I think evolution very much ties in with that, doesn't it? I mean, if we know human history is 5,000 years old, and we have many, many apparent human precursors, we have to infer that the Earth is a lot older than 5,000 years-- unless they are all separate species.
But there are logical inconsistencies with the Biblical account-- like vestigial organs in humans that are functional organs in human precursors, that make us ask-- why do humans have these useless features, if they were designed (presumably perfectly) by a creator? If I was designing new organisms from scratch, I wouldn't do that.
