“Given what we know now do you honestly think that any of those men would subscribe to the 9000 figure if they lived today? “
Do you honestly believe that they’d chuck their belief that the Bible is true for the sake of political correctness?
I don’t pretend to know, either way. But I hope their belief in God’s word was sincere.
I mentioned famous scientists from history. Plenty of current scientists are six day creationists, too. My son has a BS in Physics (UCLA) and works in Bioinformatix science, developing delivery systems for state of the art drugs. He’s a believer in six day; and he is a sought after and recruited employee. My church elder has a BS in Chemistry (UC Berkeley) and a six day creationist. I am sure his work in chemistry is quite adequate. Another church elder is a Podiatrist, with his MD from UCLA - six day.
All around you, at all sorts of various levels of scientific endeavor, are men and women who hold to six day creation and do excellent scientific work. The two are not mutually exclusive. Creation is confessed as a miraculous act of God, not as scientific law. As a matter of fact one definition of a miracle is that it defies known scientific law.
Can we believe in the resurrection and be good scientists, from your point of view? Can we believe that water was turned into wine, the blind made to see, the crippled to walk - spontaneously, with no medical intervention?
Or are Bible believing Christians forbidden from science now?
Science is not political correctness especially something as basic as whether the earth is 9,000 years old or billions of years old. Individuals are entitled to their beliefs, but Broun is specifically stating that his beliefs will govern his policy decisions in the area of science. How would your soon with a B.S. in Physics explain the evidence which exists of a earth much older (4 x 10^5) than 9,000 years. You could argue that God started (restarted) his simulation 9,000 years ago so that it would appear that events occurred prior to that time? Why would he do that? I am waiting for Rep. Broun’s evidence of a 9,000 year old earth. Will he make it available to us so we can compare it to the library of evidence that the earth is over 4 billion years old? I have an interesting book in my library called Prehistoric Life. If you accept 9,000 years old (and God did not start the clock in midstride so to speak) then an incredible variety of flora and fauna would have had to exist simulataneously and be fossilized in distict layers where bunny rabbits are not in the same layer as ophiacodons or bony fish with archaeocyathids. I think a useful application of Occam’s Razor is in order.