Instructors at Australian university told to teach creation myth (Not what you think) (tr)

College Fix ^ | July 1, 2019 | Daniel Payne

[C19fan]

Instructors at a prominent university in Australia have been warned not to lecture on the natural historical record of that country; instead, they should teach a creation narrative regarding the origin of indigenous Australian people.

Lecturers at the University of New South Wales “have been warned off making the familiar statement in class that ‘Aboriginal people have been in Australia for 40,000 years’,” The Australian reports.

[C19fan]

So teaching Bible creation story bad, teaching Indigenous creation myths good???

[bray]

Since they tell the evolution myth it only seems fair.

[momincombatboots]

Lol.. creation myth. There is far more evidence for the Biblical record than any “science” has been able to come up with. The evolution myth makes no sense in the geologic, astrophysic world we live in
Lol.. it’s hood for a laugh though.

[lee martell]

It’s a pandemic of stupidity! The phenomenon is not just limited to England and the United States.
Willful ignorance is being tightly embraced. I think eventually this compulsion of self delusion will fall out of fashion, but it will take a generation or three to set things right. That will be long after I’m gone.

[G Larry]

Not all believers in Biblical creation have a "young earth" perspective.

To God a day is like a thousand years.

[oincobx]

>>>Not all believers in Biblical creation have a “young earth” perspective

But how long ago was the Great Flood. This is the important date since all humanity - Australian Aborigines, East Asians, sub-Saharan Africands and Europeans are the descendants of just 8 people.

[Tell It Right]

"Not all believers in Biblical creation have a young earth perspective. To God a day is like a thousand years."

Agree wholeheartedly. My favorite is when young earthers say their view is the only literal interpretation of the Bible. As though Genesis 1's Hebrew word for "day" doesn't have as one of it's literal definitions as "era of unspecified length". Or that Hebrews 4 doesn't literally say that God's day of rest is still going on (stating that at least the seventh "day" of creation is not a 24-hour period).

Or that Genesis 1:11-12 says that in "day" 3 "...the earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good". Whew! Them were some very fast producing plants to go ahead and be spitting out seeds and fruit in just 24 hours! :)

Then on "day" 6 a simple man named "Adam" does all of these things (detailed in Genesis 2) in whatever was left of the one "day" after the animals were created: Adam was created, he cultivated the garden, named all the animals (including birds and fish), and got lonely enough to need a wife. :) I guess it's possible God gave Adam some kind of supernatural A-D-D mixed with genius to cause him to do all of that in one day and still be bored enough to be lonely. :) But since nothing in the text says God put that kind of miraculous power into Adam I think it's best not to assume it.

[sparklite2]

Will this make some heads explode ...?
more likely, pimples pop.

[BrandtMichaels]

Well all believers need to realize God did not lie to us anywhere in the Bible. Further if they’ll read this free online book or watch about 4 hours worth of the videos that just might help them realize God is far bigger and more powerful than most give him credit.

Center for Scientific Creation
https://www.creationscience.com/

[BrandtMichaels]

Speaking of not assuming God said regarding each day that there was evening and morning - doesn’t sound to me like eons of time. Plus how many animal ‘kinds’ were needed at the start of creation? See my prior post in this thread if you want some sound scientific explanations from Dr. Walt Brown and the hydroplate theory.

[G Larry]

"God does not lie" DOES NOT EQUAL "everyone's conflicting understanding is true".

How much of John 6 do you accept as it is written?

[Tell It Right]

I'll admit that the phrase "evening and morning" used to throw me, too. But years later two things occurred to me.

1) The phrase was used before day 4, the creation of the sun, moon, and stars. Kinda tough to think of evenings and mornings like you seem to imply without a sun rising and setting. Is it possible? Definitely. Anything is possible with God. But I question the passion with which young earthers demand an assumption of "truth" that's not expressly in the Bible text.

2) When I read Daniel again some time later (to be honest I couldn't remember exactly where today to type this reply and had to look it up) I read in Daniel 8:26: "And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days."

If you look in the whole chapter there is absolutely nothing saying that the prophetic vision will be implemented in a 24-hour period, or that the vision was given to Daniel during a 24-hour period, or anything like that. It's simply an old Hebrew expression (I read later the expression goes all the way back to the Semantic root language, but I can't find anything definitive it went back that far) to say a passage of time has occurred, or a change of season, or a change of an era. It'd be very analogous to Reagan and other leaders using the phrase: "It's morning in America". Even if Reagan had said that at 8PM everybody would have known what he meant and not torn him up over it being nighttime.