RE: The speed of light, stars, and YEC?
December 9, 2011 at 11:56 am
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2011 at 12:15 pm by Anomalocaris.)
That depends on to what degree an assertion of fact must be discredited before you consider it destroyed. To christians that fact that it is totally false and then some is insufficient to destroy it so long as they have conditioned themselves to want it to be true in some way. To us, that it is false destroy it utterly beyond any possibility of repair, for the ladjust our conditioning and wants to exclude it.
One might say christians like everyone else is entitled to their opinions, including the opinion that there is some great goodness in considering humans fallen and raising one particularly objectionable specimen called Jesus above all the more creditable specimens to such a point as to encourage fully functional humans to relinguish their most critical human facilities in mindless sycophancy. But they are not entitled to their own fact, they are not entitled to claim humans have actually fallen, or that base on evidence, the Jesus character indeed possess outstanding traints other than advanced mental illness.
One might say christians like everyone else is entitled to their opinions, including the opinion that there is some great goodness in considering humans fallen and raising one particularly objectionable specimen called Jesus above all the more creditable specimens to such a point as to encourage fully functional humans to relinguish their most critical human facilities in mindless sycophancy. But they are not entitled to their own fact, they are not entitled to claim humans have actually fallen, or that base on evidence, the Jesus character indeed possess outstanding traints other than advanced mental illness.
