tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3772414331480635861.post6648481802611220715..comments2024-03-18T18:19:19.002-07:00Comments on bylogos: Grudem's Old Earth Inconsistencyjohn bylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05766117392831032432noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3772414331480635861.post-45664469587927518372014-10-21T10:38:16.240-07:002014-10-21T10:38:16.240-07:00Is there any way we can read or get links to read ...Is there any way we can read or get links to read using Facebook?FredyLinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04986252661042366326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3772414331480635861.post-37031195572830405662012-07-12T05:34:46.737-07:002012-07-12T05:34:46.737-07:00Roger,
You need to get Terry to think about inviti...Roger,<br />You need to get Terry to think about inviting John next year :)Steve Drakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17435371814330595643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3772414331480635861.post-66964122412708280902012-07-10T08:34:46.407-07:002012-07-10T08:34:46.407-07:00Hi Steve
Yes, indeed! Thanks. I've made the c...Hi Steve<br /><br />Yes, indeed! Thanks. I've made the correction.john bylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05766117392831032432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3772414331480635861.post-13826955428659411982012-07-10T08:01:56.059-07:002012-07-10T08:01:56.059-07:00Hi John,
Second paragraph from top, Grudem's f...Hi John,<br />Second paragraph from top, Grudem's forward is in the book 'Should Christians Embrace Evolution', not 'Should Christians Embrace Christianity' I think, right?Steve Drakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17435371814330595643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3772414331480635861.post-60399007091036717842012-07-10T07:20:55.828-07:002012-07-10T07:20:55.828-07:00Roger,
I just reread your request for prayer for D...Roger,<br />I just reread your request for prayer for Dr. Grudem, especially 'this week'. Praise God if it's true what I think you're saying. I have earnestly been praying, but will double my efforts. Glory to God in heaven!Steve Drakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17435371814330595643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3772414331480635861.post-26342247499755665372012-07-10T07:05:41.306-07:002012-07-10T07:05:41.306-07:00Hi Roger,
Yes, forgetful me. I should have remembe...Hi Roger,<br />Yes, forgetful me. I should have remembered from my online class with you several years back now. I was thinking of the TBN show last month with Ham, Ross, and others where Ross states that his view is 'not' evolutionary; forgetting however the three-stranded cord to include astronomical and geological evolution. By the way, is AIG going to have a transcription of Pastor Don Landis' speech to the AIG personnel concerning that TBN show soon? It was a powerful and effective refutation.Steve Drakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17435371814330595643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3772414331480635861.post-62968827926931245332012-07-09T20:28:32.728-07:002012-07-09T20:28:32.728-07:00I believe that the evidence for Darwinian evolutio...I believe that the evidence for Darwinian evolution is so weak that you can grant trillions of years and still refute Darwinism. Thus, I don't find it a foregone conclusion that you can't deny the "evidence" for Darwinism if you accept the "evidence" for an old Earth.<br /><br />For the record, my view fits closest to the framework hypothesis, although I prefer to call it a typological view. Ultimately, I don't view Genesis 1 as necessitating literal 24 hour days, yet I also find the modern "scientific" claims to the age of the Earth and the universe to be ludicrously under-supported and, in fact, violators of current scientific dogma. <br /><br />Just for starters, it's been proven in physics that time is meaningless without taking into account motion (relativity), yet every "age of the Earth" that is given is stated as if there is such a thing as an objective, standard time. What does it mean to say the Earth if 4.5 billion years, as is claimed these days? How old is the Earth from the perspective of the first photon that came into being moving at the speed of light?<br /><br />And most importantly (in my mind) is the philosophical question: what does the passage of time mean when there are no subjects able to experience time? When someone claims the universe is 14 billion years old, is he not claiming, "If a subject were to have existed to experience the passage of time, and were that subject to have some objective, definitional standard by which to judge time, then the amount of time that passed from the Big Bang to present would have been 14 billion years"? In that light, the claim seems to involve too much baggage. But there is no subject who experienced that passage of time; there is no objective standard by which we can claim "this is what time really is".<br /><br />Ultimately, physics wants to avoid privileged viewpoints. Ptolemy was rejected, and in the process the Earth was rejected as the privileged viewpoint of the universe. Einstein got rid of the privileged notion that any one of us can have a privileged viewpoint of spacetime. Yet geologists throw all that out and assert the same privileged view of the Earth that Ptolemy had, in asserting that the universe objectively *IS* such-and-so years old, despite the fact that they claim the universe existed for nearly 10 billion years before that privileged viewpoint was even formed!Peter Pikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11792036365040378473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3772414331480635861.post-1587349121603387412012-07-09T09:22:48.567-07:002012-07-09T09:22:48.567-07:00Our church uses Grudem's ST as a text for trai...Our church uses Grudem's ST as a text for training leaders, so I get to discuss his inconsistencies with those men when we do the sections on creation. His inconsistency is glaring, as mentioned above.<br /><br />I would suggest, however, that Ross' views are very evolutionary. He does reject biological evolution, but he fully embraces cosmological and geological evolution in step with the naturalists/empiricists. Evolution is a three-stranded cord and should be treated as such. To do otherwise is internally inconsistent (accepting some interpretations, yet rejecting others) and biblically inconsistent.<br />A chapter in an upcoming book I am involved in will seek to draw out this idea more clearly.<br /><br />Also, if you could be praying for Brother Grudem this week in particular, his mind may be changed to be more in line with Scripture.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17412209856883754883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3772414331480635861.post-60277897845360510232012-07-08T05:34:05.554-07:002012-07-08T05:34:05.554-07:00Hi John,
Yes, I guess that's what I meant by t...Hi John,<br />Yes, I guess that's what I meant by the millions and millions of years. It's association with mainstream geology and it's chronology. <br /><br />Ross' RTB is the only OEC view I'm aware of, that is not evolutionary, (all others are either explicitly, implicitly, or de facto-ly evolutionary) yet he and those who adopt his views, fail to see the connection to death, disease, suffering, plagues, droughts, natural disasters and mass extinctions all happening as evidenced in the fossil record, before Adam even came on the scene, and sinned.Steve Drakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17435371814330595643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3772414331480635861.post-18811304816022077252012-07-07T08:07:03.101-07:002012-07-07T08:07:03.101-07:00...Dr. Grudem believes that scientific evidence is...<i>...Dr. Grudem believes that scientific evidence is overwhelming for an old earth, but not for evolution. Since Grudem is neither a geologist nor a biologist, how can he tell? If mainstream science is right about the age of things, why should it not also be right about the evolutionary origin of things?</i><br /><br />I've always wondered this myself. And it's not just something we hear from Grudem. This is a common line from OEC who are not theistic evolutionists. The RTB repeats it, as does Greg Koukl and others.<br /><br />But any evolutionary biologist would just laugh at them. According to them, the evidence for Darwinism is just as strong as for an old earth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3772414331480635861.post-18151026365451424052012-07-06T15:39:53.344-07:002012-07-06T15:39:53.344-07:00Hi Steve
Thanks for your comment. It is not just ...Hi Steve<br /><br />Thanks for your comment. It is not just the millions of years that are a problem. Many Christians also do not seem to realize that adopting mainstream geology--with its chronology-- undermines the plausibility of a biblical Adam.john bylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05766117392831032432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3772414331480635861.post-68845270259847324082012-07-06T07:21:32.948-07:002012-07-06T07:21:32.948-07:00John,
Thanks for drawing this connection. It is th...John,<br />Thanks for drawing this connection. It is the millions and millions of years associated with 'all' old earth positions that is really the crux of the issue. Few Christians seem to grasp this, yet the secularists see it very clearly and heap their contempt most vehemently on the biblical timeline.Steve Drakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17435371814330595643noreply@blogger.com