Follow me
DYERCONVERSATIONS
  • Home
  • About
  • Resources
    • Study Materials >
      • Essential Beliefs
      • The New Birth
      • Q&A about Salvation
      • Salvation is Free
      • How the Church Began
  • Contact
  • Seminar Topics

Atheist Universe Review (Part 6)

9/26/2014

0 Comments

 
Picture
Pgs 123-124--After citing the debunked "Peppered Moth" example Mr. Mills moves even further into the absurb by citing the Urey-Miller experiment as evidence for his view. This makes my head spin. A simple google search will help anyone to see that this experiment was thrown out BY THE EVOLUTIONISTS years ago. It did not come up with the right elements for earth's early atmosphere. It only got a couple of amino acids but in these it didn't get the right ones to build towards proteins. It would be like saying you found a bolt in the dirt and you are readily on the way to having your own spaceship. To read more about how this theory is impotent click here (notice this is from Princeton, hardly a Christian source). 

 Or click here for a more scientific explanation on the experiment.  

Pg 143--"Genesis and the scientific method are mutually exclusive". I have no clue how you can even make this statement. Maybe one could say that 'Genesis and the modern scientific interpretation are mutually exclusive.' I would probably agree with that on some levels. But how is Genesis at war with the scientific method? You mean the one that says we are to use observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses? If so, then how is Genesis at odds with it? If the scientific method has the capability to be applied to the Big Bang and hypothesize something coming from nothing then why can't it be applied to something coming from someone? This seems absurd and very presuppositional. 

Pgs 163-165--He argues that any natural explanation is more likely than a supernatural one. Then goes on to give an illustration of a “highly unlikely” event as something nobody would consider miraculous just bc it happened. I have a few problems with this. 1) The evidence for the natural explanation doesn't always have the greatest explanatory scope. Sometimes a miraculous explanation IS more likely. For example. If we saw a man blind from birth immediately able to see right after a man prayed for him then would we say a natural explanation has a greater explanatory scope and power than the miraculous one? It seems as if he is ruling out the miraculous from the beginning and that really isn't too scientific of him to rule out possible causes a priori. 2) Something being “highly unlikely” and something being only likely by supernatural means are two different things. For example: It is highly unlikely that I win the lottery but if I do it is not miraculous. But if I was an amputee and then grew a brand new leg in the matter of 3 seconds after someone prayed that God would heal me then that is miraculous. So his whole example of "highly unlikely" doesn't even apply to miracles. It is a category mistake. 


0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Categories

    All
    Apologetics
    Apostles
    Archaeology
    Atheism
    Bible
    Christianity
    Dawkins
    Free Will
    God's Sovereignty
    Hermeneutics
    Inspiration
    Morality
    Moral Relativism
    Philosophy
    Psychoanalysis
    Reading
    Romans 7
    Science
    Scientism

    Picture

    Author

    I’m Billy Dyer a Teacher and Preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This is my blog page. It is focused on “coffee table apologetics”..... continue reading >>


    Follow Me:

    Tweets by @dyerthoughts84

    Archives

    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    October 2019
    September 2019
    May 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    April 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    October 2016
    September 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014

    RSS Feed


© 2015 dyerthoughts
Picture