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To: null and void
According to the YEC-ees your tagline means that when Martin Luther King, Jr. said "I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character" he clearly meant that he was looking forward to a single literal 24 hour period in all of history when character matters more than color for judging one single man.

That is a silly argument, because the narrative doesn't read "one day ____ happened and the next day ____ happened" what is there is a numbering of days, and in Hebrew grammar, when numbering a day, its a literal day. Then you have "evening and morning the ___ day" which for even the most dense reader should be obvious that we are talking a literal day.

Even those who wish to compromise are going to have a difficult time explaining how photosynthesis works for "eons" before the sun and moon were created.

127 posted on 10/26/2011 3:49:56 PM PDT by The Theophilus (Obama's Key to win 2012: Ban Haloperidol)
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To: The Theophilus
null and void ~ According to the YEC-ees your tagline means that when Martin Luther King, Jr. said "I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character" he clearly meant that he was looking forward to a single literal 24 hour period in all of history when character matters more than color for judging one single man.

The Theophilus ~ That is a silly argument, because the narrative doesn't read "one day ____ happened and the next day ____ happened" what is there is a numbering of days, and in Hebrew grammar, when numbering a day, its a literal day. Then you have "evening and morning the ___ day" which for even the most dense reader should be obvious that we are talking a literal day.

That is a silly reply given that anyone familiar with English grammar knows that the article "a" precedes a single event or item: a boy refers to a single male child, for example.

Everyone knows that.

Therefore MLK, Jr must have meant one single day and one single individual man.

136 posted on 10/26/2011 4:58:43 PM PDT by null and void (MSGT Dean Hopkins USMC (ret) WWII-Korea-Vietnam 11/9/1925-10/22/2011 My hero, my Dad)
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