No what i have done is refence a pile of verses that come straight out of the bible commentary that give you the meaning of the passage of scripture in Psalms 104.
Your claim is that Psalm 104 is talking about the earth being built onto a pedastool. That is absolutely not what the Psalm is about. It is NOT saying the earth is the center of the physcial universe, it is not saying that the earth is a stationary object…it is not even talking about these things. That is not what the Psalm is about in any way shape or form.
if you truly understood the theology, you would not make ridiculous claims that are in fact contrary to the meaning of the text!
The problem here is that someone gave you a naysayer wives tail argument, that someone being an evolutionary scientist, you took upon their argument without first examining whether or not their argument is in fact contrary to the very theology of the passages of scripture it came from…that is a foolish position to take.
This is the entire problem with theistic evolution…it first says, “the science is accurate, the bible is wrong”.
Due to the outcry this caused in the religious movement, that statement has now been updated to read “the science is right, its our understanding of the scriptures that is wrong”
Then theistic evolution attempts to weld together dissimilar metals thus creating a construct that sees so many conflicting errors in its theology that thousands of years of study and research see this movement alienated…neither side agree with this movement. Now many would think that taking the middle road is the safe option…however, i think John wrote fairly plainly in Revelation that Laodocia would be spewed out of his mouth because it was neither hot nor cold but luke warm (so there are caveats to the middle of the road view)
God expects us to follow his word…actually i have an interesting quote to insert right here from Dr Kurt Wise
Finally, one day in my sophomore year of high school, when I thought I could stand it no longer, I determined to resolve the issue. After lights were out, under my covers with flashlight in hand I took a newly purchased Bible and a pair of scissors and set to work. Beginning at Genesis 1:1, I determined to cut out every verse in the Bible which would have to be taken out to believe in evolution…
being careful not to cut the margin of the page, but to poke the page in the midst of the verse and cut the verse out around that.
night after night, for weeks and months, I set about the task of systematically going through the entire Bible from cover to cover.
With the cover of the Bible taken off, I attempted to physically lift the Bible from the bed between two fingers. Yet, try as I might, and even with the benefit of intact margins throughout the pages of Scripture, I found it impossible to pick up the Bible without it being rent in two.
I had to make a decision between evolution and Scripture. Either the Scripture was true and evolution was wrong or evolution was true and I must toss out the Bible.
God began to show me that the rejection of evolution does not necessarily involve the rejection of all of science. In fact, I have come to learn that science owes its very existence and rationale to the claims of Scripture.
the claim of an old earth denies the veracity of the first 11 chapters of Genesis (e.g., the order of creation, the distinctness of created kinds, the absence of pre-Fall carnivory, the lack of higher animal death before the Fall, the creation of Adam and Eve, the “very good” status of the creation at the end of the Creation Week, the great longevities of the patriarchs, the global nature of the Noahic Flood, the dispersion of people away from the Tower of Babel).
This in turn challenges the integrity of any concept built upon these chapters. Yet, it is my understanding that every doctrine of Christianity stands upon the foundation laid in the first few chapters of Genesis (e.g., God is truth, God is a God of mercy and love, Scripture is true, all natural and moral evil on the earth can be traced back to man’s Fall, Christ’s return is global, Heaven is a perfect place with no sin or death or corruption of any sort). Thus, an earth that is millions of years old seems to challenge all the doctrines I hold dear.
