Growing up in Detroit, Michigan, as a child, my sports teams were the Lions, Tigers, Pistons, and Red Wings. They just were. Winters were cold and summers very warm and muggy. In public school, I learned to believe that the earth was 4.5 billion years old, and my great-great-great uncle (repeated many times) was a monkey. No, no! A chimpanzee.
The polite way to refer to dark skinned people was Negro or Colored, then Black. I was Caucasian, or White. “Race,” and accurate racial profiling, was socially important, and given a sort of scientific authority.
These things were entirely inaccurate. There is one human race, and not a single monkey in the mix. The supposed age of the earth was chosen — yes, determined just a few years before I was born — by picking a number that could stand the wild swings of “advancing scientific theory.”
The “dangerously hot” summer days of 90° Fahrenheit are cool and lovely in Central Arizona. Humidity makes a huge difference! To my friends in Australia and South America, summer is cold, and winter is warm.
But don’t you dare talk about my teams.
We are conditioned and trained for consistency and conformity, which currently include conflicting and incongruous standards we are expected to maintain. Science in English goes back to the Latin word, scientia, and retains the root meaning of organized intelligence, truth, and verification. The only difference between Plato or Aristotle’s definition and ours is that intelligence, truth, and verification no longer define science, they merely imply it. Today, science means, “How does your observation, knowledge, or speculation conform to what we now know?” (Opposed to a different absolute truth 27, 54, or 71 years ago.)
As a foundational Christian since 30 years of age, the idea of the global flood has interested me. How could it have been? Can any rational human being suggest that water covered everything? Yes, of course, if you remain limited by what we know, see, and can easily verify.
Modern mapping of the Mariana Trench, roughly 600,000 cubic miles, shows that if you filled it in, the resulting global sea level would rise 16,000 feet. In other words, by any rational understanding, there is plenty of water on earth right now to cause the global flood. Nobody is suggesting that’s how it happened. It is, however, absolutely rational. And only a few extreme peaks would stick up through the water. (Though not likely as soon as you redistribute the crust and water through tectonic shifts.)
Could the moon be made of green cheese? No. We have samples. Could life spring from abiogenesis? No. There is no theoretical means, let alone known process, for creating life, especially reproducing life. Could accidents result in evolution of that life? No. Nothing even remotely plausible can be offered. Could the earth be drowned? Yes.
What this means is that traditional earth science and conventional biology are fairy tales. At least, in order to believe their foundations, you must throw facts and reason to the wind and accept implausible speculative mythology.
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