Ah, Henry Morris. The PhD who helped form the Creation Research Society. The same society that required its members to accept these statements of belief, among others:
Given the above, Morris et al aren't practicing the science. In fact, they've reversed the scientific method (and in doing so, completely perverted it). They put the conclusions first, and then torture or ignore the available evidence and contort their own thinking in order to justify their a priori assumptions.
When I wrote my thesis, I was advised to operation on the assumptions that everything I was writing was wrong, and that the only conclusions which were defensible were those that were arrived at via a concordance of multiple lines of evidence. Even so, review was combative and forced me to extensively alter several key sections and conclusions.
I've read Morris, and his shtick is PAINFUL. Paragraph after paragraph, its the same:
A) Reference a biblical story or verse. B) Make an unreferenced statement of 'fact' that what occurred in the text happens (or happened) in reality. C) Follow this with a direct quote of biblical text. D) Double down on previous 'fact'. E) Assert that even if this fact didn't actually happen, it doesn't matter, because God can do anything and therefore the bible is inerrant.
Here's Morris in 'The Bible and Modern Science' and how he accounts for the Jonah and the whale narrative:
- The Bible is the written Word of God, and because it is inspired throughout, all its assertions are historically and scientifically true in the original autographs. To the student of nature this means that the account of origins in Genesis is a factual presentation of simple historical truths.
- All basic types of living things, including man, were made by direct creative acts of God during the Creation Week described in Genesis. Whatever biological changes have occurred since Creation Week have accomplished only changes within the original created kinds.
- The great flood described in Genesis, commonly referred to as the Noachian Flood, was an historic event worldwide in its extent and effect.
Given the above, Morris et al aren't practicing the science. In fact, they've reversed the scientific method (and in doing so, completely perverted it). They put the conclusions first, and then torture or ignore the available evidence and contort their own thinking in order to justify their a priori assumptions.
When I wrote my thesis, I was advised to operation on the assumptions that everything I was writing was wrong, and that the only conclusions which were defensible were those that were arrived at via a concordance of multiple lines of evidence. Even so, review was combative and forced me to extensively alter several key sections and conclusions.
I've read Morris, and his shtick is PAINFUL. Paragraph after paragraph, its the same:
A) Reference a biblical story or verse. B) Make an unreferenced statement of 'fact' that what occurred in the text happens (or happened) in reality. C) Follow this with a direct quote of biblical text. D) Double down on previous 'fact'. E) Assert that even if this fact didn't actually happen, it doesn't matter, because God can do anything and therefore the bible is inerrant.
Here's Morris in 'The Bible and Modern Science' and how he accounts for the Jonah and the whale narrative:
The story of Jonah and the whale has been difficult also for many to believe. It was formerly claimed that no whale possessed a gullet large enough to admit a man, for example. However, it is now known that there is at least one whale, the sperm whale, which inhabits the Mediterranean, which is quite capable of swallowing a much larger object than a man. There are also a number of other fish with sufficiently large gullets, and it may be significant that the Bible account speaks of a "great fish," "Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights" (Jonah 1:17).
There have even been a number of accounts, some of them well authenticated, of men in modern times having been swallowed by the sperm whale or some other sea monster, and then later being rescued alive. However, if necessary, there is no reason for us to refuse to believe in an actual miraculous intervention by GOD in the preservation of Jonah's life. It is even possible that Jonah actually died and was then restored to life by God, as Lazarus and others recorded in Scripture. The LORD JESUS (Matthew 12:40) accepted the story of Jonah as authentic history, and even used it as a type or symbol of His own coming death and resurrection.
There have even been a number of accounts, some of them well authenticated, of men in modern times having been swallowed by the sperm whale or some other sea monster, and then later being rescued alive. However, if necessary, there is no reason for us to refuse to believe in an actual miraculous intervention by GOD in the preservation of Jonah's life. It is even possible that Jonah actually died and was then restored to life by God, as Lazarus and others recorded in Scripture. The LORD JESUS (Matthew 12:40) accepted the story of Jonah as authentic history, and even used it as a type or symbol of His own coming death and resurrection.
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