- Evidence does not speak for itself. It needs to be interpreted. And interpretations can be wrong!
- Everyone has the same evidence. Creationists and evolutionists, believers in a young earth and believers in an old earth, examine the same fossils, rock layers, etc. Different groups don't have different evidence!
- Everyone has a bias, including scientists. Their bias may fit or conflict with the Christian worldview.
- Trustworthy eyewitness accounts trump any interpretation of the evidence. The Bible is God's account of what happened in the beginning--He was there, so He should know what happened!
Thursday, 19 April 2012
I did a crazy little object lesson recently. I secretly wrote a mean message on the blackboard about me. Then when students arrived, we discussed that it was likely a disgruntled student that wrote it. I "fessed up" the next day. The point of the lesson was to help us understand the limitations of scientific evidence about origins:
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i did not find this a fair exercise
ReplyDeleteit was not fair to point out students based on falsified evidence.....