Well, saying there are unproveable uniformatrian assumptions is one thing. Continue to claim them as evidence for a young earth is another thing. Do you have evidence somewhere for NON UNIFORMITARIAN interpreation of the earth's geological past?
Well I was HOPING you would ask!!
In fact, my evidence is so irrefutable that I am surprised that it does not convince everyone here on this Christian board!
In Genesis 1:1, the Bible begins by explaining to us in great detail how the earth was created by God in six literal days. Each day of creation marking the main work done by God on that day. The Bible goes on to describe each day of creation as GOOD, and the things created - the things God SAW were GOOD. This indicates quite convincingly that there was no sin or death in the original creation. By the sixth and final day of creative work, God had craeated all life on earth. In his final act of creation, he created Humanity in his own image to steward the creation for Him. He told Adam, the first Man he created, not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil or death would enter the world. The Bible tells us that Death is the result of sin... the wages of sin is death.
Romans 5:12 tells us that death entered the world because of Sin, and Adam's was the first sin.
Genesis 3 tells us that prior to Adam's sin, and the subsequent curse that is known as The Fall, there was no need for adam to sustain himself by eating, and there was no death (Gen 3:19) prior to the fall.
Gen 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return.
Furthermore we see from the lifespans of Adam and his immediate offspring that they lived 900+ years. Then God mitigated that in the gene pool by limiting that to ~ 120 years (science now thinks that lifespan is hereditary).
Gen 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
The Bible also describes that, because of the sin and death that had entered the world (AFTER the time of creation where God delcared everything good), it had now become corrupted.
Gen 6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Gen 6:12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
These are severe biological changes the world had never seen... and very contrary to the uniformitarian concept.
What does corrupt mean? It is the Hebrew word shachath {shaw-khath'}. It means to destroy, corrupt, go to ruin, decay. At the time of the creation of Man on day six, things were good... not corrupt. Therefore there was no death or decay. One of the definitions of Corrput from Merriam-Webster's dictionary is "to alter from the original or correct form or version" or to spoil or rot (aka decay). That means there was no decay in creation leading up to and including the creation of man, and this concept (in the form of sin and death) was introduced AFTER man's creation. This means that evolution could not have happened, as it is predicated upon millions of years of death and struggle.
Furthermore - in detriment to the uniformitarian mindset is we see the Bible describe Noah's world-wide flood. This is a severe geologic event that is ignored by present uniformitarian scientific interpretation of evidence.
There is much more of course in the Word, however, these should be sufficient evidences of NON-UNIFORMITARIAN interpretations in the geologic past. Since God's credibility is 100% and his word is infallible and absolutely true in every verse, we can take the eyewitness account of creation and the flood and apply that to our interpretations of the evidence. Therefore the uniformitarian mindset should be dismissed as we have no doubt whatsoever that is is a mistaken concept.
[ October 06, 2004, 05:50 PM: Message edited by: Gup20 ]
