RE: TO ALL THEISTS: EVOLUTIONARY THEORY IN A NUTSHELL YOU CAN UNDERSTAND.
May 10, 2012 at 10:48 pm
You only have to look at the "Answers in Genesis Statement of Faith" to see which particular mast they've nailed their colours to:
AiG-model creationists are like tourists trying to find their way around New York using a century-old map of the London Underground, obstinately insisting that the map has to be absolutely correct, so it must be the city that's wrong.
Quote:In order to preserve the function and integrity of the ministry in its mission to proclaim the absolute truth and authority of Scripture and to provide a biblical role model to our employees, and to the Church, the community, and society at large, it is imperative that all persons employed by the ministry in any capacity, or who serve as volunteers, should abide by and agree to our Statement of Faith, to include the statement on marriage and sexuality, and conduct themselves accordingly.
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Section 4: General
The following are held by members of the Board of Answers in Genesis to be either consistent with Scripture or implied by Scripture:
* Scripture teaches a recent origin for man and the whole creation, spanning approximately 4,000 years from creation to Christ.
* The days in Genesis do not correspond to geologic ages, but are six [6] consecutive twenty-four [24] hour days of creation.
* The Noachian Flood was a significant geological event and much (but not all) fossiliferous sediment originated at that time.
* The gap theory has no basis in Scripture.
* The view, commonly used to evade the implications or the authority of biblical teaching, that knowledge and/or truth may be divided into secular and religious, is rejected.
* By definition, no apparent, perceived or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the scriptural record. Of primary importance is the fact that evidence is always subject to interpretation by fallible people who do not possess all information.
AiG-model creationists are like tourists trying to find their way around New York using a century-old map of the London Underground, obstinately insisting that the map has to be absolutely correct, so it must be the city that's wrong.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'