RKO,
What I found disappointing about this post was your statement that 'his claims (to ME, anyway) are ridiculous', but you provided not one quote from the debate to support your claim.
If you are going to disagree with the content of a debate, for the sake of thoughtful Christians, would you please provide quotes to demonstrate what you are opposing?
You state: 'to ask people to disbelieve all science'. Where in the debate did Ken Ham state this? Ken Ham has been a science teacher in the Australian high school system, so I know that he is not opposed to science. This article from the Sydney Morning Herald, 'In the beginning was the debate: But there were few converts' ( February 9, 2014) stated, 'Ham first conceived of the Creation Museum as a high school science teacher in Queensland, he tells Fairfax Media in an interview before the debate'.
I hope you understand why I'm asking you to provide documentation to support your claims.
Language like, 'I just can't hang', 'asking people to accept his claims on faith', 'his claims (to ME, anyway) are ridiculous', 'I won't go into that debate', and 'it seems to me', seem to indicate you are pushing your own agenda and it is opposed to Ken Ham's creationism.
I don't support Ham's view of the earth being 6,000 years old, but your lack of evidence raises some questions for me - questions about your presuppositional bias.
Oz
In short, no, I won't re-engage the debate between scientific research and YEC. That was not the intent of the thread. I simply stated my personal opinion in order to ask the main question of the thread, which was "does YEC hurt evangelism by it's being so difficult for MOST people to believe.
Perhaps it wasn't a good idea for me to introduce this question here. I stopped responding pages ago. As far as I'm concerned this thread can be closed or die out.
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