Re: Making money from Java

"Howard Brazee" <howard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Judson McClendon" <judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>However, there is significant evidence that the earth was created
>>instantaneously, or nearly so. Have you studied the ubiquitous occurrence
>>and condition of the Polonium residues in granite, and thought about how
>>they got there? I find the secular explanations for this extremely
>>contrived.
>
> I see what kind of a literalist you are now. When the natural world
> disagrees with the supernatural, find True Believers to explain that
> scientists are wrong.
>
> In that case, there is nothing to be gained by pointing to the real
> world.

You severely misrepresent the case. It is not the evidence that is the
issue, it is the (avowedly) humanistic interpretations of the evidence,
which Christians oppose.

Just consider for a moment. In the Biblical account of Creation, Adam and
Eve were created as mature humans. The plant and animal life was also
created in a state that was already self sufficient. To my mind, this seems
a logical necessity, and consistent, if Biblical Creation is true. Okay, if
this account is true, then man and his environment were created in a state
*as if* they had been there for a long time. The one-week-old universe had
*the appearance of age*. Further, if this account is true, then there would
be *no basis* on which to form conclusions about processes that may have
produced those conditions, because they never happened. All such reasoning
would be fallacious by definition, therefore pointless, useless, and *almost
certain* to be misleading. This is not a 'trick' to get around scientific
theories about origins, it is just a simple fact that, if Biblical Creation
is true, then human theories about origins *cannot* be based on physical
evidence. Therefore, arguing *against* Creationism with "evidence" that
couldn't possibly be of any value if Creationism is true, is hardly a
rational thing, when you have no idea how else life could have originated
in the first place. The same cannot be said for physical evidence that
argues *for* Creationism, because God very well may have left evidence to
tell us that creation could not have happened by accident, or by natural
processes. I believe such is the case with the ubiquitous Polonium halos in
granite appear to be a kind of 'Divine Signature' of instantaneous creation.
I believe the same thing about the so-called "Bible Codes". The only thing
you can deduce from them is that it took God to put them there.

As I see it, the shoe is entirely on the other foot. Until somebody can
offer at least a reasonable, testable hypothesis about how dirt can
spontaneously form itself into a living organism, they're simply wishing in
the dark. Believing in God and Creation isn't stupid or ignorant; Isaac
Newton was a Christian, and possibly the greatest intellect in history. We
know today that life is far more complex than anybody in Newton's day had
any concept, and no one has a better idea of how life could form from
lifelessness. Yet so many people today are willing to stake their eternal
destiny on philosophies based on this happening. They do so because they've
been told to believe this, happily following in faith like lemmings, closing
their minds to any other possibility, all the while criticizing faith in
God. I know, I've been there, I used to believe it myself. I was taught the
same things; my educational background is in the sciences. From the age of
ten I subscribed to Scientific American, and planned on becoming a
physicist, until I was derailed by circumstances (happily, as it turned
out). But thank God, I finally came to realize how foolish humanistic ideas
of creation are. Today, having been on each side of the issue for decades,
it is hard for me to believe how gullible I was for so long. But I was. :-)
--
Judson McClendon judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (remove zero)
Sun Valley Systems http://sunvaley.com
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."


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