Problems with Interpreting the Flood - Conclusion - All of what? - Guidelines for Interpreting The Flood

July 12th, 2010

So far, I have laid down the following guidelines for interpreting The Flood in scripture:

Problems with Interpreting the Flood - Part 2 - Evidence for Global Catastrophe - All evidence for global catastrophe (that I have found) was created by the KT impact or the ancient ocean of 4.5 billion years ago.  This leaves no evidence for a recent global flood.  Therefore, the Bible is documenting a regional flood.

Problems with Interpreting the Flood - Part 3 - Evidence of Mankind - Scripture and mankind appear to agree …

Problems with Interpreting the Flood - Part 4 - Partial Revelation

July 11th, 2010

One of the problems with biblical interpretation is the apparent assumption that what the Bible says is all there is to know.  “The Bible says it. I believe it. That settles it.” is a common mantra… and I agree with it, as far as it goes.  The problem is that we do not always realize what is with which we agree.  The Bible makes it seem like the Earth is at the center of the universe.  Well, it isn’t.  However, it is at the center of God’s plan for the universe.  So, Christians then and now still believe the Bible, and yet believe different things.  It makes arguing against unbeliever rather difficult, but that aside, we need only acknowledge that …

Problems with Interpreting the Flood - Part 3 - Evidence of Mankind

July 11th, 2010

As I wrote in Problems with Interpreting the Flood - Part 2 - Evidence for Global Catastrophe, any physical evidence for The Flood used by Creation Scientists generally points at the KT Impact 65 million years ago, or at the global ocean that first formed on the earth around 4.5 billion years ago.  Furthermore, these two global events are strong evidence for God’s sequence of Creation recorded in Genesis 1.  This tells us that whatever else is true, The Flood was not a global event.  Otherwise, there would be evidence of it, and there is not.  However, this also tells us something else: …

Problems with Interpreting the Flood - Part 2 - Evidence for Global Catastrophe

July 10th, 2010

In Problems with Interpreting the Flood, I discussed some of the problems with Creation Science’s approach to interpreting scripture and scientific evidence, as they apply to The Flood.  As I discussed, when I encounter a battle between experts, I will compare their arguments, and compare their descriptions of each others’ arguments.  What I have found is that Creation Scientists cannot explain all of the evidence brought forth by old earth proponents; old earth proponents however can address all of the evidence brought forth by Creation Scientists.  Old earth proponents can also accurately describe the concerns and approach of Creation Scientists; the opposite I am afraid does not appear to be true.

However, …

Problems with Interpreting the Flood

July 3rd, 2010

While posting on the 7 Days of Creation and Righteousness for the last several years, I have been researching various theories on The Great Flood.  However, I have wanted to avoid posting any actual theory on The Flood until my analysis of Genesis 1-6 had played itself out, and I could see exactly how my theories of Geocreationism would weigh in to the argument.

Generally speaking, I never accepted The Flood as a global flood since I was a child.  I always knew the scripture was true, and assumed I would eventually understand the evidence for it.  I have studied the Creation Science for a recent global flood, and the secular science arguing against no flood at all.  Of particular interest to …

Responses to 17 proofs against evolution

July 3rd, 2010

On Jesus is Savior, there is a list of 17 proofs against evolution:

Argument 1: Not enough dust on the moon.  Refuted: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/moon-dust.html

Argument 2: Magnetic Field is decreasing exponentially.  Refuted: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/magfields.html

Argument 3: Fossil Record, because it has no transitional forms. Species appear too abruptly. Refuted: This proves to me that God abruptly created new species.  Adding God, in fact, validates the Fossil Record, rather than nullifying it, because without God there can be no fossil record.

Argument 4: Embryonic Recapitulation, arguing that it’s falisification also falsifies Evolution.  Refuted: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/wells/haeckel.html

Argument 5: Probability.  Refuted: His argument does not prove it didn’t happen, but that God was involved.

Argument 6: 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. Refuted: The SLoTd only requires the universe as a whole to lose …

Genesis 6 - Who Regretted Creating Mankind?

July 2nd, 2010

 5 The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. 6 The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. 7 So the LORD said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.” 
Genesis 6:5-7 is an interesting passage.  Christians use it to teach how much God hates sin; skeptics use it to teach how …

Genesis 6 - Which Mankind?

June 30th, 2010

As we saw in Genesis 6 - God’s Decision, the evil heart of man was causing God great pain and grief.  He regretted making them.  However, before we go on, it bears our attention to contemplate exactly who it was that God regretted making.

As we discussed in Genesis 6 - Causing God Strife, Genesis 6 appears to discuss spiritual man as if he is all there is of mankind.  But, as we also discussed in Genesis 5 - Proof that Adam was born, spiritual man is not all …

Genesis 6 - God’s Decision

June 29th, 2010

Genesis 6 begins setting the stage for the flood.  As we saw in Genesis 6 - Causing God Strife, Adam’s descendants had been causing God strife ever since The Fall.  I mean, after The Fall, it wouldn’t be until Adam was 235 years old before anyone started calling on God’s name.  Instead, people had to live off the cursed ground, and many likely under the thumb of Cain.  Why under Cain?  Well, Cain had the acid touch when it came to farming (Genesis 4:12), had no desire to be a shepherd (Genesis 4:5), and was afraid that everyone would want to kill him (Genesis 4:14).  Add to his fear and …

Genesis 5 - Proof that Adam was born

June 24th, 2010

I believe I have made a convincing case that mankind was created before Adam, around 200,000 years ago.  Then, Adam lived around 6,000-10,000 years ago.  The main proof is scripture.

Genesis 1:26-31

God made both genders on Day 6, and blessed them together, as one group. But in Genesis 2, Eve was only created because God saw Adam was lonely and needed help.
In Genesis 1, Day 6 refers to all of mankind by the word Adam; Genesis 2 refers to a specific person the name Adam.
In Genesis 1, God gives mankind the entire world to subdue, but…

In Genesis 2, God only gives Adam the Garden of Eden to tend
Adam only goes into the world after he sins
Any subduing Adam and his descendants did …