B.B. Warfield

[Resha Caner]

The age of the earth has never been a big issue for me. However, some recent conversations made me decide I should nail this thing down as best I can. So, my question is this:

For those familiar with the work of B.B. Warfield, specifically "On the Antiquity and Unity of the Human Race", what leads them to overturn his argument and continue with a YEC position?

 

[Papias]

I haven't read it and am not a YEC, so I'm doubly unable to respond to your question.

However, I will predict that few if any YEC's will have read it, but that some of them will argue for YEC here anyway.

Papias

P.S. What an early voice he was! He was a Biblical inerrantist, and a conservative, in the 1880's arguing that evolution poses no problems theologically for the Christian!

 

[Resha Caner]

P.S. What an early voice he was! He was a Biblical inerrantist, and a conservative, in the 1880's arguing that evolution poses no problems theologically for the Christian!

Don't think that I agree with everything he said. My question was targeted at his analysis of using Biblical genealogies to date the people of the Bible. As I suspected, it seems to be a very subjective process. FYI, the paper I mentioned is available online for those who are curious enough to read it.

 

[Assyrian]

The age of the earth has never been a big issue for me. However, some recent conversations made me decide I should nail this thing down as best I can. So, my question is this:

For those familiar with the work of B.B. Warfield, specifically "On the Antiquity and Unity of the Human Race", what leads them to overturn his argument and continue with a YEC position?

Haven't read any of Warfields writings but I had a look on one creationist website and their response was are you going to believe the bible or evolution? So no attempt to address his exegesis or his example as a Christian scholar and one of the leaders of the Fundamentalist movement in dealing with scripture and science.