SBTS and "young earth"

[ET]

[Ed Pettibone]

[ET]

[Ed Pettibone]

[Jonathan]

[Jonathan]

[Haruo]

Actually, Jonathan, I think most young-earthers are willing to fudge Ussher a bit. (See how the poll was worded, with a thousand years or so of grace period for the calculators.)

I think one of the more amusing types is the generally moderate religionist who claims that while the first chapter of Genesis doesn't refer to "literal, 24-hour days", it somehow consists of a schematic summation of the way God worked through the evolutionary process.

Here's what actually is said in Genesis 1-2:4a to have been the order of the days:

Day 1. Heaven, Earth, Light/Day, Darkness/Night
Day 2. A firmament to keep heaven from flooding earth
Day 3. Dry land, Seas, Plants of all kinds
Day 4. Sun, moon, stars, diurnal cycle
Day 5. Aquatic animal life (from protozoa to whales)
Day 6. Terrestrial animal life; male and female humankind.
Day 7. Repose

With all due respect, that is neither the order described (according to the young-earthers, described in more detail) in Gen. 2:4b ff. nor in any sort of accord with evolutionary scientific teaching. The idea that dry land, seas and plants precede sun and moon in the order of creation is just weird, and the idea that whales preceded land mammalia is almost as odd.

Haruo

[fox]

me down with the majority in this poll; no six day creationist me. I am not Adrian Rogers, nor am I the fellow whose wife is Frank Page's Secretary, and who informed sources say, is a six day creationist.
Which reminds me. In the glossy journal here in Upstate South Carolina, there is an annual ranking of the 50 most influential folks in the area.
Coming in #1 this year is George Hincapie, the cyclist who was on The Texas legends team. Hincapie has almost single handedly brought world class bicycling to the Greenville Area.
#20 is Frank Page, by virtue of last summer's stunning ascendancy to the Presidency of the SBC.
#19 is David Shi, President of Furman University.
Number 7 or so is Joe Erwin; anybody know him?

But so here we have the 20th most influential man in Upstate South Carolina whose key layperson in his church is a six day Creationist.
What are we gonna do about that, in these days when Frank is trying to get back in the fold with the BWA.
Look for the latest on T George and abortion in my thread on that one.