Deliver Us From Evolution?: A Christian Biologist's In-Depth Look at the Evidence...

Your message 1 would qualify as spam, but at least it was forum on-topic spam. Besides, it's hard to get upset about someone trying to give something away free. But I, and probably many others here, are at least somewhat surprised that you came to post a second message.You seem to be the second member here to be erroneously identified as some variety of a hard core creationist. The first was member Truthlover, who unfortunately has not been heard from in a long time.I strongly recommend looking at Truthlover's debut message and topic at this forum. It is "home school evolution questions", from back in 2003.Truthlover also started a fair number of other topics. Unfortunately, there is no way to directly link to that topic list, but you can get it by going to the forum search page. Once there, leave the "Search Terms" field blank, leave the "Search Forum or Category" field as the default, select "Thread Titles", and enter Truthlover in the "Search by Author Name" field.Adminnemooseus

That was not me. However, technically speaking, you are a creationist. But you are not the anti-science kind of creationist. You even admit to being a creationist.And Faith is right about that "brothers and sisters in Christ" stuff. It does not fit many of those who participate here.

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I've modified the topic title to get more (but still not all) of the long book title in. If you wish, you could send the PDF to the forum (use the e-mail address in my profile*) and I think we could post a reference copy here at the site.Adminnemooseus* Not listing in this message because that could trigger spammings.

I would never do anything less. I would even link to your own on-line resources, as I have done for others.My site organization splits off to various topics, only one of which is "creation/evolution" -- at the bottom of pages I provide links back up the chain.My "creation/evolution" section (http://cre-ev.dwise1.net/index.html) starts with a home page in which I try to explain what it's all about. So far that has never succeeded, so I'm constantly trying to rewrite it. The position that I'm trying to argue from is very different from what everybody else is arguing from, so they misinterpret me from their own mistaken positions.From there, I basically branch off in two directions. I have a quotes page in which I've collected quotes from various sources: http://cre-ev.dwise1.net/quotes.html. But the main linkage to the rest of the site is my links page: http://cre-ev.dwise1.net/links.html.I've got all kinds of stuff on my links page. I started the whole thing off as a way to link to content that I had uploaded to CompuServe in the late 1980's. So there's a CompuServe depository that I post, but then there's also what I had researched post-CompuServe.And I discovered Christians and creationists opposing "creation science", so I posted about them. A major influence was Glenn R. Morton. When I started learning about "creation science" circa 1981 and found that their claims were completely bogus, I simplistically assumed that they simply did not know that simple fact and would cleave to truth once they learned the truth. IOW, I had forgotten almost all my fundamentalist Christian training from the Jesus Freak Movement. Instead, any idea that did not conform to their narrow YEC theology could not even be considered.Just as an aside, I also began to realize that most creationists showing up in forums were just parroting what they had been told and had no idea what they were talking about, so when you tried to actually discuss their claims with them (which is what I would always try to do), they would immediately become defensive and abusive and whatever else it took to break the connection.Glenn R. Morton was a BA Physics who had become a YEC and studied with the ICR graduate school. In the bleak job market for BA Physics graduates, he went to work for a petroleum exploration company. In that position, he hired on several ICR geology graduates. In the Q&S section of a 1986 presentation to the International Conference on Creationism, he asked John Morris of the ICR how old the earth is. John Morris replied, "If the earth is more than 10,000 years old then Scripture has no meaning." (it's on my quotes page) That is when Glenn R. Morton described the experiences of those ICR-trained geologists who all suffered "profound crises of faith" when confronted on a daily basis with rock-hard geological evidence that they had been taught did not exist and could not exist or else "Scripture has no meaning."My Links section used to explicitly include a "Selected Creationists" section. Now it's more implicit with Dr. Allan H. Harvey's essays, Ed, Carl Drews, and Glenn R. Morton.And there was also Bill Morgan, a local creationist activist. An atheist acquaintance had encountered him through a pages-long diatribe, to which I responded point-by-point -- basically it was a poor-man's reproduction of Chick Pub's "Big Daddy?". All that Bill Morgan ever responded with was that one single name on a quote was wrong.That started a 20-year email correspondence. That resulted in a long series of him lying about everything and anything, including vicious personal lies from him. All of which thoroughly condemn all Christians in the eyes of his victims.ABE:
Of course, one could protest, declaring him to be that "one bad apple", Christians aren't perfect, don't condemn us all because of one bad experience, etc. True enough, except that he's not the only "bad apple", but rather most of the creationists we encounter behave like him; he's just one of the more extreme examples.But the main problem that I see is that the creationist and fundamentalist communities not only tolerate creationist misconduct and dishonesty, but they actually encourage it. Edited by dwise1, : Added to last sentence, followed by ABE section

Thanks, my email is posted on my profile, please send the PDF.Your arguments seem to be pretty standard, at least as far as this post goes. As a YEC I take the position that there's no way to answer those because we can't see that far into the past to be sure things were the same (uniformitarian assumption).So my approach is to make other arguments that I think are as good in favor of YEC. I really do think they are, and that weighs against those that have apparently persuaded you.But I'd like to reaed your book.
Thanks

Hi Aaron,You any kin to Moses? pun intended
Welcome to EvC. Why not just use what the Hebrew text says.The universe and earth are a lot older than anyone on this site believes it is.But maybe you can correct my thinking about what the Word says.I read in Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning" no one has ever been able to tell me when the beginning was. Some scientist tell me it was 20 billion years ago. Some have reached a consensus of 13.7 billion years ago. Not too many years ago they were telling me it was about 8 billion years ago.I have made the statement in other threads I believe the heavens and the earth have always existed just not in the form we see it today. Einstein was right it is eternal.There is some kind of stupid rule that energy cannot be created or destroyed. In fact I read in Scientific America, "The conservation of energy is an absolute law".Then Alan Guth comes along and gives us cosmic inflation and the inflationary universe. In which all energy needed to create the universe passed through a phase of exponential expansion soon after the Big Bang that was driven by a positive vacuum energy density.Now we got a zero energy universe.That has to be held together by some unknown energy that we don't know what it is so we call it dark energy.Maybe you can clue me in to what existed at T=0 that 1 billionth of a second was that expanding universe. Nobody has ever been able to explain to me where whatever that was began to exist as there was an absence of anything.So it would be nice if someone could come along and make sense of all this.God Bless

Aaron has made it available to be stored and accessed at evcforum.netSorry about how long it took. Kind of a evcforum bureaucracy thing.http://www.evcforum.net/...opsite/DeliverUsFromEvolution.pdfThis link can also be reached via the page top menu, Essential Links/Document Library, where it is at the list top.Adminnemooseusps - Will also add link to message 1.

BUMPWent through the trouble of getting the book available at evcforum.nethttp://www.evcforum.net/...opsite/DeliverUsFromEvolution.pdfAdminnemooseusAdded by edit:Above link no longer good. Please see message 1 for more info.Edited by Adminnemooseus, : Added by edit.