Hi Jon,jonperry wrote:Last week I went to see the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum. I knew that as an educator, much of what I would see would bother me, but I was surprised to find that some of what is taught might also bother Christians. They teach hyper evolution after the flood, for example, which I thought was strange. What are your thoughts on that place?
I recently heard the Southern Baptist Convention is supporting the Ark and this surprised me. I used to volunteer at a food bank with several Southern Baptist pastors. They were smart guys, I would have thought they would be more careful than to broadly promote the non-biblical doctrines of Ken Ham.
Here is my review video of the place in case you've never been: https://youtu.be/Fg2LGUSXFxk
Jon
It’s good to converse with you again. Nice job on the video and giving your audience a scientific perspective. My immediate thoughts reflected, again, disappointment in the lack of faith among Christians regarding the “MIRACULOUS” in the genesis and Noah account. I am a strong advocate for the “gorilla in the room”, i.e., that the biblical creation and flood were entirely miraculous events. As any scientist would know, you cannot possibly defend a purely scientific reasoning for a seven-day creation and surviving a worldwide flood. Therefore, scientists rightly look for how a natural world could produce such diversity and life itself. But, the creation and flood account has nothing to do with the natural laws that govern the universe, they were set aside. When God said, let there be light, separating night from day, and created the first evening and morning, the first-day and subsequent others were, in fact, miracles. After the flood, God said be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. Obviously God miraculously provided for their immediate needs, such as food and health. Therefore, there is no need for any hyper-evolution theory.
Jon, scientists cannot account for miracles; however, Christians should. I believe YECs should boldly proclaim the obvious miraculous nature of creation and the flood because this is the biblical explanation. For example, when Jesus fed the five thousand, He created fresh loaves of baked bread out of thin air! That bread, scientifically, was no different from any other baked bread. It was complete with age, and probably had scorch marks from baking. Now a scientist would rightly conclude that under normal circumstances the bread would have to go through a series of processes in order to come to fruition. But that's not what happened. It came into existence out of thin air! This is no different from the creation account.
Yes, under normal conditions the laws of the universe proclaims awesome truths. But, these laws came into existence “miraculously” and therefore cannot be the causation of everything, God is. So when we consider the age of “the analogous bread”, we ought not to let normality blind us from the truth, it came into existence instantaneously. The search for knowledge must first begin with the truth.
Blessings my friend.