Janet Kellogg Ray | Science Denial and Christian Culture

[Dale (evolutionary providentialist)]

@adamjedgar

check what the obvious biblical interpretations are

Here we go again, not any more. The firmament around your brain is too impenetrable in one direction, but the other direction lets a lot of words out.

Just this:

@Dale

This applies to you and YECism in general:

@Dale

Science rarely gets turned on its head and it mostly changes by becoming more accurate and more precise. It also tends to be self-correcting. So I’m afraid your “science changes” and “shifting sands” argument is a classic straw man and a pretty hollow one at that. On the other hand, flawed interpretations of scripture and bad exegesis have the opposite tendency, resisting correction and becoming worthy of characterization as a rut, a rut deep enough that those in it cannot see out of it and it becomes their entire reality.

@kocheesh

But like anything in life, we must be careful not to make our science and discoveries into idols.

That also applies to Biblical interpretations – they can be and are turned into idols, false representations of the true God and the truth that comes from the reality of his creation.

All science does is investigate physical reality, and where the interpretation of that reality appears to conflict with the interpretation of reality based on the Bible (which not so incidentally is concerned with spiritual truths, not scientific ones), one or the other, or both interpretations are in error.

This is a truth that comes from physical reality and cannot be discarded simply because of one’s misinterpretation of biblical reality:

@Paraleptopecten

@cewoldt

the erosion was of unconsolidated sediment, not solid granite.

And how does granite form after being eroded? It’s a plutonic igneous rock. It cooled straight from magma deep underground; and no, there are no other ways to make granitic rocks, other than pointless deceptive miracles or magic.