@George Saxon: I have so much respect and admiration for …

Comment on La Sierra University debate over creationism continues by Patrick.

@George Saxon:
I have so much respect and admiration for the intellect of anyone who can grasp and master the mysteries of physics and other sciences. However, no matter how smart one may be, there is still the fundamental choice to be made regarding your a piori. Schooled to make assumptions about science and the laws of faith that require that God Himself must be bound by them, and that {all things must continue as they have from the beginning”. you will naturally reject as simplistic the confidence we have in the plain prose sense of the Genesis account of creation. You have at least this faith George, that you believe that the laws of physics are God’s laws. However Biblical faith gives us different assumptions than does human wisdom. In the Bible we learn of a Go exists and functions outside of and superior to the physical laws that govern our existence. What for us is “miraculous” is for Him commonplace. A man of faith who is a scientific observer asks, “Given the established fact of a week of creation, comprised of a mere six days, how do we explain what we see in our physical world.” And there are indeed gifted and highly qualified scientists who see all that you see and are finding satisfying answers that do not contradict scripture, but that rather confirm faith in that divinely provided record of beginnings. My prayer for you is that you will yield your intellect to the superior intelligence of the Creator Jesus Christ, and in so doing you will have true wisdom, rather than having your great mind highjacked for the service of human foolishness.

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