In Six Days? (continued)
Here is the text of Mike Purrington's latest response.
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Hey, been at the lake doing some work and just got back. I read your
response. Let me copy just a small piece from what you sent
Can you explain to me how a God who can do all of these miracles is not
able to evolve a horse from a Hyracotherium? I can't understand why your God is
capable of doing all these repeated acts of creation, but finds himself unable
to create by evolution..
Here is the problem as I see it having read most of your articles, you
could not defend creation against evolution and therefore lost your faith. I on
the other hand after reading and looking at the evidence has only increased my
faith in the creation account. You say we can't discuss God and evolution but I
beg to differ for they are one and the same.
Let me ask you a question, putting aside everything we have discussed,
answer me this question. Why would God use evolution to create when he has the
power to speak it into existance? When I look at that question I have to answer
it this way, If he were a scientist he would be interested in it for
experimentation and to see the result over time. If he were an illusionist it
would be to impress, but in any case it would just that, an illusion and a fake.
I don't know if you're a Star Trek fan but there was an episode in which
Proffesor Moriaty of Sherlock Homes fame and the Countess Regina Barthalomew
were created by the captain as an adventure but the situation got out of hand.
He took over the ship to force the captain to allow them to live outside the
holodeck. In an elaborate scheeme he is convinced he has left it and the two
will live happyly ever after. The problem-They were still characters of fiction
liviing in an virtual reality - is that what we are for scripture does say we
are as the grass of the field, we wither and die? Thats what we would be if God
was an illusionist, living our lives for an experament. Thankfully we're
not.
SO WHY IS EVOLUTION SO IMPORTANT? ANSWER - BECAUSE IT DENIES THE EXISTANCE
OF GOD. God could have used evolution, but the problem with that is this, it
denies who he is. To make a case for evolution SOMETHING MUST DIE! God said
after creating that all was Good, and it did indicate death was involved.
2 Timothy says 3For the time will come when men will not put
up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather
around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to
hear. 4They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside
to myths.
I went back and re-read your website, and here is what you said
And so, without apology, I turn to the process of careful observation,
thoughtful questions, and deductive reason to see what I can learn. I hope that
you will join me in this adventure. Let's start with a look at creation.
Let me ask you this, if the basis of an argument are on facts that seem
right and look right, does it make them right? Science has changed its stand
on many things over the years because of new evidence. Theories come and go,
some right some wrong. But scripture has not changed. I look at science and its
discoveries every day. I do not deny that a lot of what science say is true for
I worked in that field for many years as a Computer specialist and later as a
bio-med engineer. As Holmes used to say,
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"
Consider this, Holmes's straightforward practical principles are generally
of the form, "If 'p', then 'q'," where 'p' is observed evidence and 'q' is what
the evidence indicates. If p = God and q is the evidence or what the evidence
indicates, and applying what Holmes said to God there is but one answer, however
you see the glass as half empty, I see it as half full.
The debate will continue for as long as time allows. No disresect, but you
have chosen to place your faith in a false hope, in the end it is not science
that will come to the rescue when you face the unknown but a faith in God that
cannot be moved no matter how much circumstanial evidence is produced
Mike Purington
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