Bugeyed,
That was my error in not stating that science does not have the standard definition of 'theory', which is, 'A supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained.' (Oxford dictionaries online 2017. s v theory).
Science's meaning of 'theory' is: 'A well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypotheses' (
source).
Evolution can't be based on observation of evolutionary processes for macroevolution
as they happened. You and I were not there to see the dinosaurs and humans deposited in the same layers of rock.
Your presupposition is that you only interpret the evidence in creation from an evolutionary perspective. You do not consider the evidence from historical science, as found in Scripture. By the way, historical science also is science.
So what? That doesn't prove that it is correct when you censor other information that doesn't fit within science's worldviews.
There is another one of your presuppositions. The evidence of the reliable Scriptures contradicts that view.
See what you've done with your evolutionary presuppositions!
- Human fossils can be found in the same layer as dinosaurs but that doesn't have to be the best explanation. Ever heard of evidence uncovered in support of the destruction of every living thing on the earth through Noah's Flood (Genesis 6).
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- Full size interpretation of Noah's Ark in Dordrecht, Netherlands
- Even your use of 'Precambrian' is an evolutionary view (see Origin of life, Precambrian evolution).
Your claim is that evolution is 'a model built on observation and evidence - otherwise it wouldn't have been a scientific theory in the first place'.
God has given you some of the evidence in
Romans 1:18-32. Your mind is closed to that information that you can investigate in creation. Why? Your naturalistic presuppositions!!
You can't accept that criteria used to test the reliability of any document, including the writings of
The Australian newspaper of 30 years ago, Captain Cook's journals, and that finds the New Testament to be superbly reliable:
If we reject the authenticity of the New Testament on textual grounds we'd have to reject every ancient work of antiquity and declare null and void every piece of historical information from written sources prior to the beginning of the second millennium A.D. (
Is the New Testament text reliable? Greg Koukl).
You DO know this information about God's creation as he has revealed it to you in Scripture and creation. But you are not open to receive it. God is not going to hit you with a bolt of Canberra lightning (I used to pastor a church in the ACT) to make you sit up and take notice of God's existence.
What did Jesus say about the evidence? In the story he told about the rich man and Lazarus, one experiencing blessedness and the other torment, this is recorded:
‘He said to him, “If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.”’ (Luke 16:31).
If you won't believe the evidence for God in creation, and the evidence in a reliable Bible, you won't be convinced even if God would raise someone from the dead - or you were hit by a lightning bolt. Or, if I continue to reason with you. Wouldn't you agree that at this present time you are NOT open to consider the evidence in Scripture? If that is so, why do you come onto a Christian forum to spread your evolutionary message?
All human beings who reject the reliable evidence in Scripture do so because of what Romans 1:18 states, 'The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who
suppress the truth by their wickedness' (NIV)
Are you a textual critic who has investigated why the Bible, both OT and NT, is a book of reliable, trustworthy, credible documents? Many have written advanced doctorates on this topic. I did it myself. I have a PhD in New Testament in which I investigated a dimension of the historical Jesus - 482pp dissertation.
The NT's and OT's reliability are based on evidence - not evolutionary evidence - but textual evidence. You have given me standard throw-away lines from atheists. Take a read of F. F. Bruce,
The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?.
I don't expect you to be open to that evidence because of your presuppositional bias to reject such evidence. You haven't demonstrated that you are open to ALL of the evidence. You appear to be open only to evolutionary scientific evidence and not historical science that investigates the truthfulness of any historical document.
He has already proven he's real in creation and through the death and resurrection of Jesus. You'll know about his reality in a very different way at his Second Coming. See:
What will happen when Jesus comes again?
I pray that you will be open to ALL of the evidence and not listen to your selective hearing and reading.
If you clicked on my name under my avatar to read my profile, you'd know I'm an Aussie bloke from Brissy.
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