Image from ICR article.
Image from ICR article.
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As long as people actively attempt to discredit Christianity by discrediting creation, we have to have apologetics focused on providing a defense of creation.
We don’t have to fear science. That’s the bottom line. Just like we don’t have to fear archeology. We don’t have to fear millions of years. Mt St Helens shows us exactly what those walls are - hydrological sorting that happen extremely quickly in a catastrophic event. Why there are marine specimens at the tops of mountains.
Skeptics will be skeptics. Many truly do not want it to be true, the famous paraphrase of a biologist “evolution doesn’t work, but I stay with it because the alternative is personally horrifying” mentality pervades a great deal of these people. With those statements they have already said they will ignore evidence, they will not care even if it’s true when they know their evidence and arguments don’t work, they are refusing it because they don’t want to accept it - not even as a possibility because it’s too terrible for them to consider.
Jesus said you’ll always have the poor with you. He could have easily said you’ll always have people who will refuse to believe, too. Some people lived with Jesus, knew Him, knew who He claimed to be, saw and heard the miracles, and still didn’t believe. Some of those unbelievers even decided to persecute Him. If some today do the same thing to us when we present arguments and evidence, we must not be surprised.
Once again folks are distracted into Bishop Usher’s 6,000 year old world and literal interpretation, versus that the time span in Genesis is an allegory to represent time before there was a 24 hour day created by God.
This distracts us from centering Jesus’ the message of salvation for each of us and the guide on how for each of us to live as He taught. we need to center on what unites us as Christians, not internal discussions such as this. To me, God created the universe, world, animals, and mankind. Throw out this center piece over whether or not it was 7 x 24 hour days or millions/billions of years, is doing nothing but giving our enemies arguments against us and keep us distracted from spreading Jesus’ message to the people of the world.
Science demands objectivity. The rigors and methodologies of science are designed to frustrate and expose those who attempt to abuse it as a tool to advance a personal agenda outside of the pursuit of science. People tend to not look favorably on those caught doing it.