gluadys said:
No, this is a conclusion (not a belief) from the evidence which contradicts that creation occurred within six solar days.
Ah, here we are again. I hope all is going well with you Gluadys!
I believe you are incorrect to state that there isn't a "belief" against a six day creation. There is.
You, and many others with you, claim there is evidence that says contrary, yet evidence itself says nothing; it is the interpretation of evidence that says something. This is not about what evidence says unless you believe that fossils, geological columns, etc actually speak to scientists and tell them their history. Since this is an absurd idea, I can conclude that we can agree that we are talking about interpretations here.
It is a TE assertion that yec's are wrong about their interpretation of the Bible and that scientists cannot be wrong about their interpretation of evidence. Let us get to the heart of the matter, is the Holy Spirit with believers or not? If so, what does the Holy Spirit care about, what the earth says or what God says? If the Holy Spirit is to teach what God has to say, then is it your claim that when it comes to Creation, yec's are void of the Holy Spirit in their interpretation of it?
And would you assert that scientists have the Holy Spirit teaching them when it comes to their interpretations of evidence?
gluadys said:
On the contrary, there is abundant evidence against it.
No, there is abundant interpretations against it. There is evidence yet understood by creationists in a Biblical world view.
gluadys said:
Where as there is no evidence contradicting a virgin birth or a resurrection. Just no evidence for it either.
There are interpretations that are against the virgin birth and resurrection. Just as there are interpretations against a world created in six days.
Yet evidence, says nothing. It is human interpretation that asserts all of these Biblical perspectives are wrong.
gluadys said:
No. I am not aware of any evidence or logic or scriptural testimony that God confined himself to miraculous means of creation other than the initial drawing of matter/energy out of nothing.
Do you hold to the theological position that God is necessarily absent from natural processes of his design?
Like your quiet slip of words into sentences that almost creates a strawman. I did not state God is confined to anything. I did not state God is absent from a natural process. Is it your assertion that if God created in six days that He is absent from natural processes and is confied to the miraculous?
For I never made such a statement, so can I conclude that these are your beliefs if God did indeed create in six days?
Just as Jesus created the food for the 5000 and the 4000 to eat, just as Jesus walked on the water, just as Jesus turned water to wine, so can Jesus create a world miraculously. For there is nothing too hard for my Lord.
You create an excellent example as to why these debates are meaningless. Your last statement suggest I believe or hold to something that I have never stated in order to make my words/statement look preposterous.