Wow, David, that was quite a treatise! A really "succinct" (using the word in a relativistic sense) comparison of these views that nicely captures the variety of both physical and spiritual assessments of the basic reasoning to understand the meaning of what creation and God's Word tell us. I continue to be both enlightened and mystified by these discussions. And didnt our God tell us exactly that - "My ways are higher than your ways"? AKA the true basis of the Heinsenberg Uncertainty Principle.
Bigger fish to fry than the question how it all began? Very good!
I grew up in an evangelical church in Germany - a condition so rare, then and now, that such discussions had to be outsourced to the USA. I have moved on from there, but I still (or again) think that there is a certain danger in dealing with this issue using the framework of science. What about a similar book about how this is all going to end (Dispensationalism, Postmillennialism and The Sun Eventually Swallowing the Earth)?
Ahem... yes, about ten seconds after I published this piece, I did think... I know what I mean, but maybe I should have phrased that in another way. Oh well.
I have not read it, but I'm told there is also actually a "Four Views" book on eschatology... unlikely it mentions the sun swallowing the Earth but I have not read it!
But yes, both Ham and Ross at times seem to be forcing the Bible to say more than it is really intending to say so they can integrate it with modern science in some way... eh.
Wow, David, that was quite a treatise! A really "succinct" (using the word in a relativistic sense) comparison of these views that nicely captures the variety of both physical and spiritual assessments of the basic reasoning to understand the meaning of what creation and God's Word tell us. I continue to be both enlightened and mystified by these discussions. And didnt our God tell us exactly that - "My ways are higher than your ways"? AKA the true basis of the Heinsenberg Uncertainty Principle.
Bigger fish to fry than the question how it all began? Very good!
I grew up in an evangelical church in Germany - a condition so rare, then and now, that such discussions had to be outsourced to the USA. I have moved on from there, but I still (or again) think that there is a certain danger in dealing with this issue using the framework of science. What about a similar book about how this is all going to end (Dispensationalism, Postmillennialism and The Sun Eventually Swallowing the Earth)?
Ahem... yes, about ten seconds after I published this piece, I did think... I know what I mean, but maybe I should have phrased that in another way. Oh well.
I have not read it, but I'm told there is also actually a "Four Views" book on eschatology... unlikely it mentions the sun swallowing the Earth but I have not read it!
But yes, both Ham and Ross at times seem to be forcing the Bible to say more than it is really intending to say so they can integrate it with modern science in some way... eh.
What material is there in the book on microscopic life and it not being mentioned in Genesis? This is an area I'm not familiar with.