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Gorden J. Glover excellently captures the needless struggle between Theology and Science in his current series Missed Opportunities Part 1 and Missed Opportunities Part 2.  The basic idea is that if all of life did not descend from a common ancestor, then God seems to have missed His opportunity to tell us that in within his blueprints.  In fact, the blueprints appear to be screaming “COMMON DESCENT”.  

Given the purpose of my own blog, to show that science and scripture are really telling the same story, I find Gordon’s posts to be timely and needed.  People need to realize that the conflict between science and theology is artificial, and only due to our stubbornness and ignorance.

Some highlights:

Part 1:
We can …

(Lesson learned if you have a WordPress blog: This is my second writing of this.  First time, I was in the process of posting it.  I interrupted the publish however because I forgot to assign categories.  But, it had published enough already that it was showing up on the blog.  So, I then opened a second window to delete what was posted.  I then came back into my first window, picked my categories, and then published, and then whoosh.  The post was gone, and hitting the back button showed a blank post.  Apparently, I deleted my post out from under myself.  Argh.  I will never do that again.  As embarrassing as that is, I publish my stupidity so that …

In trying to weigh the evidence for a recent global flood, versus a prehistoric local flood, I recently came across a blog I was unfamiliar with, criticizing Glenn Morton for ignoring YEC evidence for the flood.  It seems that about 10 years ago, Glenn Morton wrote Burrows cause problems for the Flood.  It concluded that the burrows we see fossilized in the earth’s crust could not be explained by the flood.  8 years later, in 2006, John Woodmorappe wrote a paper addressing burrows and the flood, entitled Are soft-sediment trace fossils (ichnofossils) a time problem for the Flood?  So, I decided to review both papers and see what conclusions I could come up with …

I am about to do something risky.  I am about to evaluate the scientific evidence presented by Glenn Morton for the likelihood of Adam, Noah, and the flood being 5.5 million years ago.  The reason this is risky is because I do not have the scientific background to judge the validity of Morton’s evidence.  Of course, that hasn’t stopped me from evaluating other scientific positions, so why let it stop me here?

In my readings, I have now seen several critiques of his theory.  In my opinion, these critiques fall into two major camps.  Camp #1 is scientifically knowledgeable; often exceptionally knowledgeable.  They do not necessarily refute or misunderstand the existence of Morton’s evidence, but they do not think it proves …

Continuing my thoughts from Identifying a Reasonable Approach to Evolution and the Great Flood, I have to figure out how to take a position without requiring 3 more college degrees, to stake out some ideological territory and be taken seriously for it.

One of the challenges is figure out the proper place for experts.  Every expert says something different, and I cannot find one who can decisively answer these important questions we all have about the flood:

When was the flood?
Where was the flood? Was it local or global?
Was the entire human race killed?
Is the genealogy from Adam to Noah complete?  Is the genealogy from Noah to Abram complete?

Let me address these …

When I first started the Geocreationism blog, I already had a theory for many of the Genesis 1 events… and I have posted on most of it.  Not much of my theory has changed thankfully, though further study has caused some adjusting here and there.  Admittedly, I have never been certain on how to account for the Great Flood, but that hasn’t stopped me from posting through Day 5.  I must say however that Day 6 is another matter, because unlocking the time, place, and scope of the flood can impact the believed time frame of Adam’s existence, not to mention ones understanding of Abram’s genealogy back to Noah and then Adam, as well as other critical events recorded or implied in Genesis.

Now, …

I recently encountered a person, on Steve Martin’s excellent blog An Evangelical Dialog on Evolution, named Herman Cummings.  Cummings espouses his own theory of how to interpret Genesis 1 that he calls the “Observations of Moses”.  To be honest, I thought he was kidding because of his self-declaration:
If you wish to waste your time with those that are not an expert on Genesis (there’s only one), then expect to be given false information.
I wasn’t sure if he was talking about himself or not, so I googled him and found that he was referring to himself, and he is not kidding.  Here is how he introduces himself in a letter connected to a Cobb County lawsuit regarding what …

  I thought this quiz was interesting, and summed up my attitude quite well:

What’s your theological worldview?
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You scored as Evangelical Holiness/WesleyanYou are an evangelical in the Wesleyan tradition. You believe that God’s grace enables you to choose to believe in him, even though you yourself are totally depraved. The gift of the Holy Spirit gives you assurance of your salvation, and he also enables you to live the life of obedience to which God has called us. You are influenced heavly by John Wesley and the Methodists. 

Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan

86%

Classical Liberal…

One of the things I like about writing of Creation is that Genesis 1 is about more than just Creation.  It tells the story of Jesus.  I write about this in detail in Separation in Creation Confirms Trinity, but I want to remind you of an ineteresting parallel to Day 2, as lived out by Jesus:
Separation #2
The second separating event for Him was His birth, a physical separation from His mother.  Through Mary’s pregnancy, Jesus grew, an expanse within the waters of Mary’s womb. And on the day of Christ’s birth, God separated Mary’s waters from her waters, and Jesus was born.
No matter what you believe about Creation, the age of …

As discussed in Day 5 - Determining a Date (Part 2), God commanded the birds to fill the air a little less than 65 million years ago.  Shortly after (geologically speaking), the fossil record shows an immense explosion in the quantity and variety of birds that existed.  According the fossil record, this happened within the era in which small to large sea life evolved, but before the majority of modern land mammals evolved… conveniently in line with scripture.

I now want to look at the creation of birds a little more closely, just to make sure the scriptures really say what I think do.  Here are the key sections of …