I recently listened to three sermons by Ken Ham from Answers In Genesis. Probably the most convincing talks I've heard that argue for a literal six day creation.
Some people laugh when you go on about dinosaurs, millions of years, evolution and all that jazz. Like it's just daft stuff, not real theology, and you just need to get past it. But Ham made a very interesting point in one of his talks... people read the first 11 chapters of the Bible and think it's ridiculous. And if the first 11 chapters of a book seem completely nuts, why would you keep reading?
On that basis, knowing a thing or two about dinosaurs, creation vs evolution and millions of years is actually fairly central to the gospel in our scientific age. If you can't get past the opening chapters of the opening book, you'll never get to Jesus.
Saturday, 22 October 2011
The First 11 Chapters
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Very true! It annoys me how people (especially Christians) discredit Ken Ham as a nutter. I'm not saying I'm a fully paid up member of the creationist club, but the argument you mention is a strong one! If Genesis isn't literal, is Exodus literal? Is the NT literal? It seems to me many Christians change their hermeneutics constantly. Lots of people say evolution is true, but believe in a literal resurrection. So they back science over the Bible in one instance and the Bible over science in the other!
ReplyDeleteWhat's funny is that "science" has no place in an evolutionary mindset. If you believe all that stuff happened, then you take it on faith, more or less.
ReplyDeleteYou cannot observe or repeat the process of origins -- which means there can be no "scientific" belief in the gradual magical development of life and then new and better species, due to a process (genetic mutation) that, in all our observation, has only damaged existing life.