Confused and Baffled Creationists?
Guest Post by Cowboy Bob Sorensen the blogger and Question Evolution Project leader, followed by a Ken Ham article
Edited 4-12-2022
Bob Sorensen is a fine researcher and blogger. I was quite happy to have a guest post submitted by him this week. His tremendous posts and hard work as a researcher and writer make him worthy of more than one link on my sidebar. He heads the Question Evolution Project and writes Piltdown Superman, Stormbringer's Thunder, Biblical Creation and Evangelism, and others.
This is an appropriate time, as the blog has been hit again recently by a wave of commenters who do not understand the rock layers or how organisms actually work, are completely brainwashed to the point they are unreasonable and unreasoning and are therefore trolls. Such men and women are hardened to any hope of seeing truth and therefore represent a threat to the young people and those who DO want to know truth. I am dedicated to informing those who have not seen evidence for Young Earth Creation, dialogues with those who want to genuinely discuss things and scolding the trolls for their ignorant and evil belief system. Our society is under attack from every side from Atheistic Atheopaths who wish to destroy the old order and morality and cast aside the US Constitution in the process, especially the Bill of Rights! But that subject is for another day...
Christianity is under attack in many ways. One area of attack is the so-called "Progressive Creation" postulated by Dr. Hugh Ross. The problem with this Theistic Evolution is that it is completely illogical and totally a compromise, an attempt to mix oil and water. You just cannot mix evolution and creation.
Evolution claims that things become more complex and sophisticated by lucky mistakes, mutations, and that somehow remarkably and irreducibly complex systems and symbiotic relationships just happen all at once, happily and luckily, despite all statistical and chemical and observational evidence to the contrary. First, let me give the floor to Bob and then I have more to follow...
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Confused and Baffled Creationists
By Cowboy Bob Sorensen
Too many creationists are lazy. That’s right, I said it! Christians might attend a seminar, read a book or two about creation science, watch some videos and then try to badger atheists into repentance. When atheists and evolutionists give responses, these unprepared creationists stammer with wide eyes. The evolutionists think that they have the truth and the facts, and nothing has happened to dissuade them.
Evolutionists and atheists are often intellectually lazy, but many put a great deal of effort in stockpiling arguments against God, quote-mining the Bible and finding excuses to ridicule creationists and Christians.
There are some questions that I need to ask you. Very serious questions.
Do you care?
If refuting evolution is an intellectual parlor game for you, there is something wrong. Creation is the foundation of the gospel. We are not to be trying to score points, but to win souls.
What is your worldview?
The Christian’s worldview should have the Word of God foremost. Evolution can be a religion in itself, and it is a foundation for the religion of atheism, as well as being essential to
liberal Christianity. We have the truth, but they have fanatical devotion to
protecting “science”.
Can you think?
Paul reasoned in his presentations of the gospel (in Acts 17, he started with creation when discussing with the pagan evolutionist Greeks), and we are commanded to contend for the faith (Jude 1.3), as well as demolish strongholds of false philosophies that rise against the gospel (2 Cor. 10.4). We must be able to give “reasoned argument” (1 Peter 3.15).
Unfortunately, evolutionists and atheists have quite a few “arguments” against us. But with even a cursory knowledge of logic, their reasoning falls to the ground. One Christian read The God Delusion and committed suicide. The tragedy is compounded because Richard Dawkins is a terrible philosopher, and some logic lessons would have had that person laughing, not dying. You can learn some simple logic, especially common fallacies, starting here. The “wisdom” of the world fails miserably when it is used against the truth, but we can use reason to present our case.
Are you willing to put some work into it?
Not only creation science and theology, but the Christian life requires putting effort into it: Reading, praying, watching videos, interacting with other creationists and so on. It’s far more than learning cute slogans that are pasted on pictures.
Let’s use it!
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What’s wrong with ‘progressive creation?’
The ‘progressive creation’ view of Dr Hugh Ross on how to interpret the book of Genesis has received wide publicity and endorsement from many well-known Christian leaders, churches, seminaries, and Christian colleges.
This brief summary of only some of these teachings is meant to familiarize Christians with aspects of the ‘Rossist’ position, including some that are not so well-known. We need to judge these against the absolutes of God's Word to see ‘whether these things were so.’ (Acts 17:11)
While Dr Ross is NOT an evolutionist per se, he does accept much of what evolutionists teach in astronomy and geology. We do not seek to pass judgment on his Christian character or commitment to the Lord.
To read the rest, click here.
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There is even more to refute Hugh Ross, which I will post later. My friend, Bob, wanted to put up a guest post so I decided to also address Hugh Ross, BioLogos and other compromising organizations and people who discard the Bible and make their own gospel.
I read "Starlight and Time" back when it first came out. I found a great deal of satisfaction in some portions of it, as it claims to "prove" that the Creator God created. However, upon reading the entire book and reflection on the teachings, I had to reject it all. Ross teaches things that refute the Bible based entirely on speculation and the popular teachings of the time.
In 2007, the year my wife and I first got to meet Dr. Jonathan Sarfati and many other fine teachers and scientists at a conference, there was a big debate scheduled between Jonathan and Dr. Hugh Ross. Did Ross back out after watching Sarfati defeat I believe 10-15 chess opponents with Grandmaster points while blindfolded?! Sarfati's personal best had been 12 at once as of 2005 and he was undefeated.
He may have actually defeated 15 at once at that conference and THAT would have been his new personal best? Perhaps. In any case, the debate Hugh Ross agreed to in advance? He backed out and demanded to debate someone else at the conference, a man who was a specialist in history and Constitutional law I believe. That debate was interesting, but what was MORE interesting is that Ross backed out of debating with Jonathan Sarfati...one has to believe Ross was sure he would be routed!
There is now more to say about Dr. Hugh Ross and Dr. Jonathan Sarfati, their opposing views of Creation and who is Biblical and who is not. But enough for now. We'll see if any Ross defenders pop up first.