Ken Smith wrote:

And, as Rowland suggested, it’s about time that we got on to how Answers in Genesis manages to relate their reading of Genesis to the scientific culture in which we live.

Don:

I am not prepared to do that until you actually engage the real biblical issues that I raised in my first post. Other than an attempt to attack inerrancy, all you have done is nitpick and obfuscate, resorting to various fallacies to muddy the water. We have yet to see how you interpret Genesis and how this interpretation meshes with the rest of the Bible and provides a basis for the Gospel and an effective theodicy. Come on, Ken, put your cards on the table, mate, and stop beating around the bush (to mix a couple of metaphores!). Or are you ashamed of your view of Genesis? I suspect you know that it does not stack up and that is why you are so reluctant to do this, preferring rather to cite as many ‘authorities’ as possible whose views also cannot withstand the light of Biblical evaluation.

What is your view of Genesis, Ken? Myth? Theistic evolution? Framework hypothesis? Day-age idea? God’s days; not our days? It doesn’t matter as long as I don’t have to agree with Don? 🙂

Ken:

For make no mistake about it, I have counselled a number of very confused students who have arrived at University expecting to find that the creastionism they heard preached on Sundays would be backed by lecturers, since AiG makes so many claims about “large numbers of scientists turning to creation as the best explanation”.

Don:

And just where have we said that, Ken? You put this in quotes, suggesting that we have said this. Where, Ken? This is a bizarre claim. When I speak to young people and their parents I make it very clear that university can be a hostile environment for anyone who wants to believe the Bible and that they need to be properly prepared.

And your claim is heresay anyway. In our experience, we have found that a huge cause of loss of faith at university (and at Bible Colleges!) is compromising Christian academics who effectively tell students that they can reinterpret the Bible to fit whatever they like. I mean, if the clear account of creation, flood, etc., in Genesis cannot be believed, even when Jesus and the Apostles believed it, why should I believe any of the Bible? See Joel’s story: http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/feedback/joel_galvin_testimony.aspand Sonia’s testimony: http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/feedback/2003/0418.asp or Lita’s experience: http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/feedback/2004/0206.asp#lita

Don