Y'all are going to stop me before I out on a limb, right?
Bump?
Anyway. Perhaps it is obvious. But, I think the point about what is knowable has to do with whether we really can account for what we see.
If there is more to what we can see than what we do see, how is what we see should be the best frame of reference. (We walk by faith, not sight.)
If God has spoken, and we all believe that he has in some measure, TE and YEC, is he not speaking from the perspective of a far more intimate, direct and impactful level of observation and intervention in what is happening right before our eyes, or in the rocks we study or whatever?
Obviously, faith willl change how you view this problem of a vast unknowable field of causes that affect our world. But, if you have faith, it is very hard to have confidence in what you see.
As for what God says, I play this song by Sara Groves about a girl who gets sent to therapy for spending too much time alone and thinking too seriously about God. Looking up the stars at night she asks:
Maybe this was made for me,
For lying on my back in the middle of a field.
And maybe that's a selfish thought.
But maybe there's a loving God.
And maybe i was made this way.
To think and to reason and to question and to pray.
And I have never prayed alot.
But maybe there is a God.
I think a loving God wrote the Bible, and wrote in a way that infinite love would, perfectly, because my eyes will not find the truth on their own. WHen I look into the Word, I think, this was made for me, because God loves me too much to let me survive on metaphor and doubtful interpretation alone.
