I’ve been listening to William Lane Craig’s Reasonable Faith Podcast which is available via the Reasonable Faith webpage. In a recent episode Dr. Craig briefly explains, much more clearly than I am able to, the problematic nature of Christian Fundamentalism.
In addition to the Reasonable Faith Podcast you can subscribe to the Defenders Podcast which is the audio from Dr. Craig’s Sunday school class at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church.
Dr. Craig’s focus on the Big Bang Theory and how it “fits” with the account in Genesis worry’s me a lot. If Genesis says light and earth on day one, and water and land to follow, then vegitation on day 3 and then sun, planets, and stars on day four there is a problem since Big Bang would say the sun is older than the earth. So according to the Bible, the earth is older than the sun and actually had water, land, and vegitation before the sun was even created! No way the Big Bang “fits” and to believe that the earth existed millions or billions of years without the sun doesn’t make any sense either. This cannot “fit” with Genesis. Nope, I’m still sticking with young earth for now.
Comment by — June 18, 2007 @ 1:37 pm
I suggest you go over to the Reasonble Faith website and submit your ideas in question form. He answers one question a week…maybe he will answer yours!
Comment by — June 18, 2007 @ 2:27 pm
I registered at Reasonable Faith and posted your comments on the forum. If I get a response I will post it on the blog.
Comment by — June 18, 2007 @ 2:36 pm
Okay, thanks buddy.
Comment by — June 18, 2007 @ 3:34 pm
Here is the first reply I received:
“Why not? According to the scientific theories the sun didn’t become a fully created sun (i.e., at 100% of its full strength) until at least a billion years into earth history. The moon and take on a stable orbit until about that timeframe too. (The moon is thought to have been formed by the collision of another planet about the size of Mars that hit the earth, and caused the oceans to form–e.g., according to Day Three.) Therefore, it would make sense that light came first, then the oceans formed, then the sun and moon “formed” in that they came to their full created existence until after a billion years had passed on earth.”
Comment by — June 18, 2007 @ 4:06 pm