Do you feel it's an improvement that many theists are backing away
from Young Earth creationism, and instead viewing evolution as a divinely ordained process?
Responding to a piece I wrote for the Washington Post about my journey
from young earth creationism to evolutionary creationism, Mohler told readers that my «glib and superficial endorsement of evolution and its reconciliation with Christianity is all too common and all to irresponsible.»
Not exact matches
It was
young earth creationists who drove me away
from the church.
One can get easily confused, as the
young earth don't is used very often here; although it is sometimes indistinguishable
from the sarcasm font, I will admit.
I just love these
young earth creationists, they see the huge amount of evolution evidence but are just too brain - washed to get away
from the bible.
Reading breathless media reports about CO2 «pollution» and about minimizing our carbon footprints, one might think that the
earth can not have too little CO2, as Simpson thought one couldn't be too thin — a view which was also overstated, as we have seen
from the sad effects of anorexia in so many
young women.
Matthew 11:25 At that time Jesus said in response: «I publicly praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and
earth, because you have hidden these things
from the wise and intellectual ones and have revealed them to
young children
One only need search for «
young earth geology» on youtube to get a plethora of videos
from a Dr Snelling who was referenced a few times by Ham in the recent Ham - Nye debate.
Im
from canada and I know very well that many people here hold to
young earth creationism as well..
Ken Ham challenged Bill Nye to a debate, even while Ken Ham continues to run
from me and my proposal that he «come out» and «come clean» regarding his positions relating to my argument that so many of his followers rail against but which quite properly is able to demonstrate why it is, in part, that
young -
earth creation - science promoters have failed in their scientific pretensions and legal challenges.
It continues: «The names of the Deities that were born next
from a thing that sprouted up like unto a reed - shoot when the
earth,
young and like unto floating oil, drifted about medusa - like, were the Pleasant - Reed - Shoot - Prince - Elder - Deity, next the Heavenly - Eternally - Standing - Deity.
I'm not denying the literal nature of the bible by proposing some
young earth theory, or saying the bible is an allegory, nor am i denying the evidence
from science.
Oh and Jerry... your «earned Ph.D.
from an accredited institution» is clearly not in the sciences... LOL All those thousands of scientists who you claim believe in your
young earth quackery?
One only need search for «
young earth geology» on youtube to get a plethora of videos
from a Dr Snelling who was referenced a few times by Ham in the Ham - Nye debate.
When Loren Eiseley describes the process of evolution of plant and animal life struggling through the hot, red winds of the
young earth, and when space shots send back data
from the Moon and Mars, our cosmic vision expands.
I'm a Christian, I'm kind of a big fan of the Bible, and I believe it's theologically and scientifically acceptable to read Genesis 1 - 11
from a «
young earth» perspective (although I myself do not).
It may be that the later alienation of
young adults
from the redemptive tradition is, in some degree, due to this inability to communicate to the child a spirituality grounded more deeply in creation dynamics in accord with the modem way of experiencing the galactic emergence of the universe, the shaping of the
earth, the appearance of life and of human consciousness, and the historical sequence in human development.
But Abram said to the king of Sodom, «I have raised my hand to the Lord, God Most High, the Possessor of heaven and
earth, that I will take nothing,
from a thread to a sandal strap, and that I will not take anything that is yours, lest you should say, «I have made Abram rich,» except only what the
young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.»
As you may know
from my One Verse Podcast in which I am currently working through Genesis 3, and my literal understanding of Genesis 1 - 3 ends up being quite different than the way
Young Earth Creationists understanding these opening chapters of the Bible.
Dr. Austin, the «scientist» in question, is a
young earth creationist who went to the site with the stated purpose of finding «proof against evolution,» gathered material which was a mix of newly formed rock and ancient rock which had been ejected
from the mountain, dated them with imprecise methods, and then skewed the results, as thousands of actual scientists have already reported.
My list of beliefs which «faith» required included; literal creation and a
young earth / universe, complete scriptural inerrancy, total abstinence
from alcohol, no women in church leadership, absolutely sexually chaste outside of marriage, homosexuality equals pure abomination, and on and on the list goes.
I learned much of this at Bryan College
from Dr. Kurt Wise, one of the leading
young earth creationists in the country and a favorite professor among Bryan students.
As a
young evangelical myself, I confess I have grown tired... no, weary... of responding to comments like these with some honest suggestions for how my fellow evangelicals might avoid said retirement, only to be discounted and disparaged for believing the
earth is more than 6,000 years old, for voting for Democrats
from time to time, and for daring to serve communion to gays and lesbians.
in which a
young earth creationist argues that «Reasonable evidence exists
from the Scripture that heat did indeed flow before the Curse, which would imply a change in entropy.»
If I do a blind - taste, you would probably think these are very
young and tender baby potatoes, just dug out
from the
earth — that's how these sunchokes taste — sweet and tender, and quite reminiscent of actual potatoes.
But by stopping the destruction of mature (old - growth) forests, we prevent a huge amount of carbon
from going into the atmosphere, and by promoting
Earth - friendly planting and management of
young forests, we absorb large amounts of atmospheric carbon.
Earth Day Sensory Bins
from One Time Through — Both of these bins focus on sorting garbage into Trash, Recyclables, and Compost while teaching
young kids to reduce waste and recycle.
Brewing an imaginary pot of tea is a really good thing for the
earth when
young hosts use the environmentally friendly tea set
from green toys.
After becoming a Christian, he reevaluated his evolutionary beliefs
from training in secular geology, and is now a
young -
earth creationist.
Our one - of - a-kind energy is what has been attracting innovators, freedom riders, and immigrants
from every other place on
Earth, what has more than 2.6 million people waking up here every day, what has
young scholars selecting our schools, and what has the public and private sectors investing billions of dollars here.
They want to know how on
earth this
young and healthy black woman, who was pulled over by police for a minor traffic violation in Texas on July 10th, ended up dead in a Waller County cell
from asphyxiation three days later.
Two specks of rock that formed when
Earth was
young suggest we've got to rethink everything
from the story of the solar system to the origins of life
He doubts that an
Earth - like planet or super-
Earth would pull in so much hydrogen
from the cloud of gas surrounding a
young star.
When Yeung learned that the new machine in
Young's laboratory could discern this slight difference, he applied for grant funding
from the National Science Foundation to learn exactly how much 15N15N is in
Earth's atmosphere.
Climate researchers
from the Helmholtz
Young Investigators Group ECUS at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Potsdam have now investigated how temperature variability changed as the
Earth warmed
from the last glacial period to the current interglacial period.
It will probably happen in 20 to 40 million years, leaving a ring that will persist for anywhere
from one million to 100 million years, according to two
young earth scientists at the University of California, Berkeley.
The theory assumed, for example, that at the time of the impact,
Earth already had a core — that the heavy iron in the
young accretion had already separated
from lighter elements and migrated to the planet's center, where it was hidden when the impactor struck.
Each of the 14,370 pinpricks of light in this x-ray image is a hot,
young star in the Carina Nebula — a giant cloud of gas and dust some 7500 light - years
from Earth where new stars are being born.
In this way, they observed DG Tauri, a star 450 light - years
from Earth that is shooting jets of hot gas
from its poles — the sign of a
young star (artist's impression above).
In an extensive review paper published in the 2011 Quarterly Review of Biology, Sera L.
Young of Cornell University and her colleagues conclude that eating
earth rarely adds significant amounts of minerals to one's diet and, in many cases, interferes with the absorption of digested food
from the gut into the bloodstream, sometimes resulting in nutrient deficiency.
The dusty, rocky, gaseous lump, circling a star 520 light - years
from Earth, is the
youngest planet - in - the - making ever found.
In fact, last week, astronomers found a rocky planet not much bigger than
Earth whose orbit around its relatively
young star is only 3 % of the distance
from Earth to the sun (ScienceNOW, 21 April).
Scientists think our moon condensed
from the debris of a Mars - sized world that smacked into the very
young Earth.
In the late 1990s, astronomers noticed a distinct warp in the disk of dust and gas orbiting a
young star some 60 light - years
from Earth.
The researchers mapped thousands of star clusters in the attractive barred spiral galaxy M83 (shown), 15 million light - years
from Earth, finding that the percentage of
young stars in clusters declines
from the urban core to the suburbs: Four thousand light - years
from M83's center, 19 % of
young stars belong to clusters, whereas 13,000 light - years out, just 7 % do.
His results lend support to the theory that the oceans were formed by water vapour released
from the hot interior of the
young Earth.
«Thanks to all of you, near and far, old and
young, who joined the Cassini mission in marking the first time inhabitants of
Earth had advance notice that our picture was being taken
from interplanetary distances,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «While
Earth is too small in the images Cassini obtained to distinguish any individual human beings, the mission has put together this collage so that we can celebrate all your waving hands, uplifted paws, smiling faces and artwork.»
The team compared the positions of these galaxies with the location of a cluster of
young galaxies 11.5 billion light - years
from Earth in SSA22 which had been studied in visible light by the Subaru Telescope, operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ).
Within that range of atmospheric density, even higher concentrations of carbon dioxide wouldn't have been adequate to counteract the faint
young sun, suggesting that methane, ethane or other strong greenhouse gases kept
Earth from freezing.
«Mars is much farther way
from the sun than
Earth, and when the sun was
younger, it was not as bright as it is today,» Luo said.