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It's a mistake to say "Either scientism or creationism." If those are the only two options, then of course a religious person must be a young-earther. But there is a third alternative: Catholicism. Scientism and creationism agree that if there is evolution, then there is no God. Assert God, deny evolution; assert evolution, deny God; or accept God & evolution. | It's a mistake to say "Either scientism or creationism." If those are the only two options, then of course a religious person must be a young-earther. But there is a third alternative: Catholicism. Scientism and creationism agree that if there is evolution, then there is no God. Assert God, deny evolution; assert evolution, deny God; or accept God & evolution. | ||
The fear is that if we do not embrace creationism, then we accept scientism. We should not concede the saganist argument that if the Big Bang is true, there is no God or that if evolution takes place, there is no God. We don't have to be creationists in order to deny those absurd arguments from the saganists. There is a third position. | |||
== Ken Ham == | == Ken Ham == | ||
Revision as of 19:16, 23 March 2014
It's a mistake to say "Either scientism or creationism." If those are the only two options, then of course a religious person must be a young-earther. But there is a third alternative: Catholicism. Scientism and creationism agree that if there is evolution, then there is no God. Assert God, deny evolution; assert evolution, deny God; or accept God & evolution.
The fear is that if we do not embrace creationism, then we accept scientism. We should not concede the saganist argument that if the Big Bang is true, there is no God or that if evolution takes place, there is no God. We don't have to be creationists in order to deny those absurd arguments from the saganists. There is a third position.
Ken Ham
If you adopt Ham's interpretation for Genesis, you're committed to it for the whole of the Bible. All of his Protestant theology of sola scriptura and the infallible bible come into play.
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