Thursday, February 29, 2024

Young Earth Today 2030 - Alpha vs. Beta Got SciFry?


Today's topic is an Alpha Course booklet:

Is There a Conflict Between Science and Christianity? by Nicky Gumbel (2016):

https://shop.alpha.org/p/139/is-there-a-conflict-between-science-and-christianity

 

You can read a sample here:

https://issuu.com/alphausa/docs/science


Alpha #3 (2016 ed.) vs. Coming to Grips with Genesis (2008):

https://answersingenesis.org/store/product/coming-grips-genesis/

 

The Alpha Course is a 15-session intro to Christianity.  More than 10 million people have been influenced.  It started with Anglican Holy Trinity Brompton in 1977.

https://www.christiantoday.com/article/massive.alpha.ad.campaign.to.reach.out.to.millions/13058.htm


TIME mag had an article "God vs. Science" and in it there was a quote from Paul Bloom: "Religion and science will always clash" (Gumbel, pp. 7,8). Bloom misrepresented & criticized Ben Carson in the Atlantic.  Bloom is a Psychology Prof at the University of Toronto.  Did Dr. Bloom separate twins connected at the head?

Ben Carson gave the Commencement Speech @ Emory University in 2012, how about Dr. Bloom?  I met Dr. Carson in Midland, Texas when he was running for President. Dr. Carson has criticized Darwinism and is sympathetic to the Young Earth view.  Carson on the evidence for #evo ... 

 

It's just not there. But when you bring that up to the proponents of Darwinism, the best explanation they can come up with is "Well…uh…it's lost!"…I find it requires too much faith for me to believe that explanation given all the fossils we have found without any fossilized evidence of the direct, step-by-step evolutionary progression from simple to complex organisms or from one species to another species. Shrugging and saying, "Well, it was mysteriously lost, and we'll probably never find it," doesn't seem like a particularly satisfying, objective, or scientific response.

 

"Benjamin Carson: The Pediatric Neurosurgeon with Gifted Hands" by Jerry Bergman, Ph.D. (2009): 

http://www.icr.org/article/benjamin-carson-pediatric-neurosurgeon-with-gifted/

 

494 faculty, students, and alumni from Emory University made a formal complaint regarding the selection of Dr. Ben Carson as commencement speaker.

"Creationist Doctor Questioned" by Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell:

https://answersingenesis.org/public-school/christian-teachers/creationist-doctor-questioned/

 

Talk about the persecution of scientists!

Ben Carson - Emory University Commencement Address (2012):

https://youtu.be/-3-veSwIWhw

 

Writing in the Atlantic, Paul Bloom claims that science is superior to faith:

"Religion has no equivalent record of discovering hidden truths.

So why do so many people believe otherwise? It turns out that while science and religion are as different as can be, folk science and folk religion share deep properties. Most of us carry in our heads a hodgepodge of scientific views and religious views, and they often feel the same."

"Scientific Faith Is Different From Religious Faith - Not all beliefs are equal"

by Paul Bloom (11-24-15):

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/11/why-scientific-faith-isnt-the-same-as-religious-faith/417357/

Solomon was a scientist, Dr. Bloom should read 1 Kings 4:29-34.

Modern Science in the Bible by Ben Hobrink is a great resource - it was published by Simon & Schuster!!

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Science-Bible-Amazing-Scientific/dp/1439108927

Former evolutionist Ben Hobrink lives in the Netherlands and works with Open Doors.

He now holds to the traditional view: Creation In Six Days #CISD a Global Flood and a  youthful planet.

 

Consider the Jewish health regulations.  Job said the earth hangs on nothing (Job 26:7).  Heb 11:1-3 provides this insight: "Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for. By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible."  I can't see a quark with my naked eye.  In Job 15:15, we learn that even "the heavens are not pure in his sight."  That is totally consistent with supernovas, yet contrary to Aristotle's view!

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2009/10/bible-astronomy-for-brainiacs.html

The remedy to Brother Nicky's book is Six-Day Creation by Robert Gurney.

https://www.amazon.com/Six-day-Creation-matter-believe-Choices/dp/1846250978

This is also a short book that came from Britain.  Dr. Gurney was born in Burma and  received his medical training at Bristol. He's worked in Israel, Tanzania and Kenya and was a general practitioner in Devon.  Gurney's book is PC, Pro-Creation (Creation In Six Days, Global Flood & Young Earth). #CISD

 

Nicky brings up the Galileo affair (p. 8).  I would argue that one can make a Biblical case for heliocentrism:

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2009/10/bible-astronomy-for-brainiacs.html

 

Gumbel rocks with Galileo and noted that, "... there have certainly been periods in the history of Christianity when the church has opposed the results of scientific study. Galileo, the seventeenth century Italian astronomer, found himself in conflict with the Roman Catholic Church over his discovery that planets revolve round the sun. He was tried by the inquisition in Rome, ordered to recant and spent the final eight years of his life under house arrest"  (Gumbel, p. 8).


I'd recommend 7 Myths by my friend Michael Keyes ...

Unbelievable: 7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion by Michael Newton Keas:

https://www.amazon.com/Unbelievable-History-Future-Science-Religion/dp/1610171535

Dr. Keas deals with Galileo as well as some cool UFO/Alien analysis.

The Galileo Myth - Michael Keas:

https://youtu.be/YQ2ZiTmIYDY

mooore >>  

Galileo ~ Myth vs. Reality, with Dr. Rob Carter and Dr. Jonathan Sarfati:

https://youtu.be/Lb9Ulz_b2Es

 

Francis Schaeffer points out that the opposition to the Copernican theory was not based on scripture but on Aristotle’s views:

 

When the Roman Church attacked Copernicus and Galileo (1564-1642), it was not because their teaching actually contained anything contrary to the Bible. The church authorities thought it did, but that was because Aristotelian elements had become part of church orthodoxy, and Galileo’s notion clearly conflicted with them. In fact, Galileo defended the compatibility of Copernicus and the Bible, and this was one of the factors which brought about his trial.

 

A good synopsis of the Galileo affair may be found in chapter ten of Dinesh D’Souza’s What’s so Great about Christianity?

 

Gumbel spoke of the Scopes "Monkey" Trial, "Persecution of scientists did not end in the seventeenth century. As late as 1925, John T. Scopes, a high-school teacher from Drayton, Tennessee, was prosecuted for violating the state law by teaching the theory of evolution" (Gumbel, p. 8).

One of my earliest published papers on origins was on the Scopes Trial.

"The Scopes Trial and After" by Jay Hall (Vol. 2, No. 2, 1979):

https://www.arn.org/orpages/orindex.htm

 

The Real Truth about the Scopes Trial is found in Monkey Business by Marvin Olasky of World Magazine.  Scopes got dragged into a publicity stunt to promote the town of Dayton.  He was no activist for Darwinism, he wound up in Venezuela with Gulf Oil.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/monkey-business-the-true-story-of-the-scopes-trial_john--perry/520890/?resultid=bc745af4-5c39-4ba6-9cae-523a994ce60c#edition=4486074&idiq=3736330

 

The supposed evidence for evolution given in the trial has long been abandoned.  If George McCready Price (d. 1963), who was quoted at the trial, had been able to appear the results may have been vastly different.  He was the author of The New Geology (1923) which refutes Deep Time:

https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Books/NG1923.pdf

Price was teaching in England at the time of the trial (Monkey Business, pp. 126, 127).

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When Nicky speaks of "persecution," one wonders if he saw Ben Stein's bold venture EXPELLED which features Richard Dawkins (b. 1941) in the finale:

https://youtu.be/gZPtE4wZ_IM

#LetsGo_ALIENz ‼

For more on the attacks on Darwin Doubters, including careers being destroyed, see Slaughter of the Dissidents by Jerry Bergman:

https://www.amazon.com/Slaughter-Dissidents-Jerry-Bergman/dp/0981873405

and more ...

https://www.amazon.com/Silencing-Darwin-Skeptics-Slaughter-Dissidents/dp/0981873480

& even MOOORE >>

https://www.amazon.com/Censoring-Darwin-Skeptics-Slaughter-Dissidents/dp/1637950136


While discussing the Scopes Trial there's a typo in Gumbel's work (p. 8):

  DRAYTON not Dayton (TN) ... #LetsGo_DayTon ‼ 

For seventeen years Dr. Kurt Wise taught at Bryan College in Dayton, Tennessee.  He earned a Ph.D. in Paleontology from Harvard and studied under Stephen Jay Gould (d. 2002).

https://creationwiki.org/Kurt_Wise

 

The first edition of Nicky's book came out in 1994, yet this typo was not caught.  This is the 2016 edition.  I take it as a sign that many fail to #DYOR Do Your Own Research and consider the info that you find from Answers in Genesis, Creation Ministries International, the Institute for Creation Research and the Creation Research Society. 

 

  AiG  https://answersingenesis.org

  CMI  https://creation.com

  icr  https://www.icr.org

  CRS  https://www.creationresearch.org

 

On page 9, Nicky talks about miracles: "... it is argued that the assured results of modern science are in direct conflict with the teaching of the Bible.  Some would say, for example, that modern science shows that miracles do not happen, whereas the Bible is full of miracles."  Brother Nicky should look into The Case for Miracles by Lee Strobel:

https://www.amazon.com/Case-Miracles-Journalist-Investigates-Supernatural/dp/0310259185

 

Brother Nicky goes universal on us, "Mathematician, physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was the founder of modern mechanics and experimental physics.  He argued that the earth was not the center of the universe" (Gumbel, p. 12).  In the Journal of Creation, physicist Russell Humphreys wrote a paper providing evidence that the Milky Way is near the center of the universe!

"Our galaxy is the centre of the universe, quantized redshifts show" by D. Russell Humphreys, Journal of Creation 16(2):95–104, August 2002:

https://creation.com/our-galaxy-is-the-centre-of-the-universe-quantized-redshifts-show

 

Nicky quotes Richard Dawkins, "God almost certainly does not exist" (p. 9).

Is Gumbel aware of the 1986 Oxford Union Debate between Dawkins and creationist  AE Wilder-Smith, who had three earned doctorates? (Biological Essentialism, pp. 219-224):

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/biological-essentialism-jay-hall/1140135320

What was the verdict?  115 (or maybe 150) votes for the Creation side and the two Darwinists got 198 ... not exactly a wipe-out.

 

Nicky rightly points out that Science has a Christian basis (pp. 9-11).  God gave us the wisdom to understand the Equations of Creation.  We read this in Jeremiah:

 

This is what the Lord says: "If I have not made my covenant with day and night and established the laws of heaven and earth, then I will reject the descendants of Jacob and David my servant and will not choose one of his sons to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. For I will restore their fortunes and have compassion on them." (Jer. 33:25,26)

 

One example of science *in* the Bible is the expanding Cosmos:

 

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,

    and its people are like grasshoppers.

He stretches out the heavens like a canopy ... (Is. 40:22)

 

He alone stretches out the heavens

    and treads on the waves of the sea.

He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion,

    the Pleiades and the constellations of the South. (Job 9:8,9)

 

See also Is. 45:12, Is. 42:5, Jer. 10:12 and Zech. 12:1.

 

Nicky presents Isaac Newton as an example of a believing scientist (p. 12). 

Newton held that mankind has existed for around six thousand years:

https://creation.com/isaac-newton

 

Gumbel quotes Physicist turned theologian John Polkinghorne (d. 2021), who also said, "If the deep-seated congruence of the rationality present in our minds with the rationality present in the world is to find a true explanation, it must surely lie in some more profound reason which is the ground of both. Such a reason would be provided by the Rationality of the Creator."

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2011/05/michio-kaku-epic-fail.html

 

Nicky plugs Francis Collins (pp. 15,31).  In Beverly Hills in 2006, Dr. Ben Carson was part of a panel discussion on evolution along with Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Francis Collins.  Dr. Carson opposed evolution.  Dr. Carson received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2008.

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2013/09/ben-carson-friend-of-creation.html

Amazingly, Collins has apologized for the lockdowns:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-pandemic-mea-culpa-from-francis-collins/ar-BB1h18DK

Will the miracles never cease?

 

On page 16, Nicky mentions David Hume (d. 1776).  Hume, surprisingly gave the #YoungEarth view a fair hearing.  See my book Is a Young Earth Possible? (pp. 104,105):

https://www.amazon.com/Young-Earth-Possible-Science-Youthful/dp/1088860788


my site: https://totalyouth.us

 

"Open wide your soul and mind, Nicky!" ♫

https://youtu.be/NdKfe9SQaOc


Francis Collins & #TheoEvo >>

https://shepherds.edu/the-quest-for-historical-adam/

 

For more info on ETL's see Biological Essentialism: 

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/biological-essentialism-jay-hall/1140135320

 

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