jason:their director of internet ministries emailed me to say he liked the Ajax Bible
brownpau:oh, wonderful
jason:i detect that you don't appreciate this org?
brownpau:Not really.
jason:i'm curious. why?
brownpau:Young Earth creationism treats the book of Genesis as though it were a post-Enlightement scientific-historical document specifically written to address questions of an empirical nature.
brownpau:The manner in which humans interacted with truth and reality was different back then, and it reflects in the nature of the God-given narrative.
brownpau:While I don't dispute that God did indeed create the heavens and the earth, it's ingenuous at the very best to force the six-day narrative structure into a scientific mold for the sake of faithfulness to literal exegesis.
jason:i see
brownpau:That said, I still do appreciate greatly that the Creationist/ID school of thought presents meaningful challenges to an increasingly complacent school of thought in evolutionary biology that we already know all the answers with regard to the origins of life -- especially that over-prominent branch of science which insists that a purely rational approach to the question necessarily means opposing religious faith in any form.
jason:so you differ on the length of the "day" in genesis
brownpau:Yeah.
jason:well... regardless of the specific ideologies of the org, its still nice to be noticed by the director of something big
jason:;)
brownpau:Oh definitely. :)
brownpau:I mean, if Tim LaHaye emailed me to say he likes my design work, I'd still be flattered. ;)
