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Creation Creation and Presuppositions I heartily concur with him that "the heavens will indeed declare the glory of God." PCANews - While I believe that Ray Williams' article regarding the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Discovery is fascinating and certainly we both agree that it ultimately shows God's handiwork, I must disagree once again with him on the conclusions he reaches based on the evidence
He says that the new discoveries testify to "the vast size and extreme age of the universe." The discoveries do appear to fit the theory that Mr. Williams supports, but they could also fit other theories that do not make the earth old. We must remember that scientific paradigms are just that theories. They do not necessarily give us the way the universe actually is. Mr. Williams goes on to assert that "mature creation" theories and "decreased light travel time" theories are "completely without merit." Now he could be right as I have said but he could well be wrong. His beginning presuppositions have led him to the conclusions he reached regarding earth age. A presuppositionalist argument is most certainly not "a diversion." Why? Simply because there may be another theory not yet "thought of" that both explains the phenomenon observed and fits with a "natural" interpretation of Genesis 1. As Mr. Williams would affirm, paradigms shift from time to time as men reflect upon the current paradigm. They "discover" a theory that fits all the anomalies better than the older one. In this case one must consider the possibility that Genesis 1 may have a meaning that it had for much of the past 400 years that the earth is relatively young and that creation was in six natural days. That is a problem that Mr. Williams' paradigm does not account for at present, but which one in the future may well account successfully for. |
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