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If we can't trust our observational and problem solving skills, then I would merely alter the question and ask "Why has God created us in such a way that, all things considered, our ability to make accurate observations and theories that explain the world are actually a load of bunk?" It sounds like serious subjectivism.
Take sediment layers, for instance. Lets say scientists can observe that a new sediment layer forms every 10 years. After a little digging they count 2500 sediment layers and estimate the first was formed approx. 25,000 years ago. Is that really scientists being weak-minded, or is it just the explanation that sounds more probable than "oh, God just wants you to think things work this way but they don't. P.s, he isn't going to help you figure out how it really happened either."
There seems to be this perception on here that scientists go about their research and experiments as sloppily as 4th graders. That may be the case with some, and they may try to apply their discipline's explanatory power too far, but within their area of expertise they know what they are doing, and they are offering explanations far superior to those offered by the YEC-ers.
well, I would say that for one, our vision, our mind, and our will are all fallen, so we don't see things as they should be, because NOTHING in creation is as it should be.
and no one is saying that scientists are sloppy, but they base their observations (to borrow from the Prodigal son), on looking ONLY at how the pig pen works. so they only look to those eyes when looking at the universe. what if the Father's House was once where the pig pen is now, clean and warm and everything?
well, then the problem is not how the scientists do their experimentation, nor is it that they are being illogical. their starting point, being different, has differing consequences. so if the pig pen was always there, the way that it was being the pig pen, then only looking at the pig pen makes perfect sense. if, however, that part of the Father's House became the pig pen, then they are starting with the wrong assumptions.
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