(February 7, 2014 at 11:14 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: You don't have to contort anything as God is a logical proposition to begin with. Denying evolution or the age of the Earth in favour of a literal reading of the Bible isn't logical at all seeing that would be denial of hard data and facts. You can point out that none of these thing particularly impacts upon the universe as a purpose made creation which I would strongly suggest to you it is.
Here's what I'm saying: you never once see the interpretations you give about scientific discoveries until after those discoveries have been made. The factual accuracy of the bible seems more determined by the age in which you live than it does the actual content of the book: before we learned so much about evolution, obviously the creation account was literally true. Before we found out the world was round, the bible clearly said it was flat, and only now do we see all these supposed predictions of a round earth. The scriptures have no predictive power bar that which you add in later.
Given this, how can you possibly say that this stuff is what the bible meant to say all along? And if this is so, why recourse the the vague, incorrect language that it did, if in fact it was a book full of true information?
If we found out tomorrow that evolution was false and the earth really was six thousand years old (hypothetically!) would you not completely reverse your evolution accepting, old earth stance, and be claiming that the bible knew these things all along?
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