The History of Creationist Thought - Dr. Todd Wood (Conf Lecture)

[@jmbreece]

Nicely done, Dr. Todd. It's easy to see how, in the early days of science, theology was seen as disruptive and making a rule that religion was not to be discussed was a way to stay focused on the science in their meetings. We do the same thing now when, for example, we are meeting to talk about a subject and agree not to bring other subjects into the discussion so we don't stray off topic and get sidetracked. Over time that has lead to an attitude of outright hostility of science to religion. It may have been a hostility for some of the scientists then, but not all. Some may have been willing to observe the science and listen to the arguments while believing in the inerrancy of the scriptures.

[@cynthia3216]

I have been taught to believe the world was created in 7 days, there was a real flood that covered the world and the tower of Babel is where our languages came from. The bible is history ❤

[@kenfleming4855]

outstanding. "Never heard it presented this way and lots of interesting new details. "Would like to hear more

[@philosophyze]

I highly recommend a book on hermeneutics by Dr. John W. Hilber named "Old Testament Cosmology and Divine Accommodation: A Relevance Theory Approach". It explains the latest understanding of linguistics (how language works) and how it applies to hermeneutics. I take a historical perspective on Genesis. Just from an ancient perspective on history. Real people and events but written by people who don't think about what a history book should look like according to modern "historians". They thought differently than we do and have different goals and expectations. Dr. Michael Heiser, in his post-modern-apologetics class recommended listening to Dr. Woods since he has a reputation as being honest in the scientific community. I came from a literal-first hermeneutics approach since I thought it honored the text the most. I thought metaphor was a compromise. The research that led to Relevance Theory indicates that a literal-first hermeneutic is opposite of how human brains work. Brain scans show humans process words in context and metaphor first and literally second. I'd always been told to read the Bible in context... but was never told that reading the Bible without consideration of the worldview of its human authors leads to eisogesis since without realizing it. I interpret the words through MY MODERN mental framework vs the authors' ancient perspectives if I don't first "get the ancient Israelite in my head" (through study of ancient Israelite and the ancient near east. Will it be perfect. No. But it will be 100% more likely to be accurate than I will get without study. I might misunderstand some things through study of ancient cosmological concepts (Dr. John Walton). But I'll miss EVERYTHING if I don't try to understand how a ancient near easterner thought. I should have known better since I'm a missionary kid who grew up with Bible translators working to interpret/translate the Bible into an unwritten language and culture. How did I not understand that English in 21st century American culture is as foreign to the Biblical authors as a tribal group is to me? P.S. 2 Peter 2:5 - 9 is a reference to the Book of 1st Enoch. Both Jude (Jesus' brother) and Peter referenced Enoch the way Paul referenced Adam.

[@verum-in-omnibus1035]

Wonderful talk. Only one correction - it was not in the 19th century that the motion of the Earth was measured and proved. That has still never happened. The experiments that were testing for the motion of the Earth failed, quite famously. And many of the scientific community questioned the dominant belief of heliocentrism. This is why a while later Einstein had to create the theory of relativity, to make up a reason why we could not measure nor calculate the speed of our alleged spelling ball we live on. To this day, no scientist can measure it, nor test it. It’s all hypothetical math they tell us is the truth.

[@elmexicanadiense6790]

A 24hr day is determined by the rotation of the earth. Not the sun, that’s why there was a day before the sun was created

[@jameswelsh3433]

Excellent work!

[@fyrerayne8882]

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[@emenem6131]

Remember the “great minds” that worried and calculated and tried to prepare for the lunar landing?......with such an old universe, there would most definitely be so many feet of loose space dust making up the surface of the moon....with no atmosphere the substrate would be like quicksand which would cause problems with the lander. 😁 smart to prepare for it but in actuality they did note only a few inches of compression. I remember as a kid saying hey wait a minute, even though they did address it, there should have been some honest backpedaling there.

[@sherrylhenning5630]

Eve was the first parsel tongue? (chuckle, chuckle.....)

[@fyrerayne8882]

sherryl henning Shaya hashi hethhhhhh

[@AWalkOnDirt]

It’s always baffling to me when people take extreme views outside of solidly established scientific consensus. I can’t wrap my brain around a flat earth, or young earth.

[@jb0433628]

Well a flat Earth is easily debunked, just show them the ISS going overhead. And for a young earth, look at dinosaur soft tissue found all over the place, as well as all the historical account of dinosaurs from ancient civilisations. Once you realize dinosaurs fossils can only be a few thousands years, and also human DNA mutations point to a dozen thousand years at most, you can make the conclusion that Earth is still billions of years old, or was also created a few thousands years ago. I am still not convinced about that, however their arguments for a young geological column is pretty solid.

[@ronaldsmall8847]

My favorite zookeeper!

[@theplotarmoredtitan5781]

I am a Muslim and I believe in Old Earth Creation. This is because we believe, long before Human were Sent to earth (which is cast out from heavenly Garden of Eden/Adnan), there other Beings rulling the Earth. Namely the race of Djinns, which was supposed to be the race of Lucifer/Iblees came from. Before the Djinns there were two other races which replace/warring with one another. The name of these two races are remain mystery. God knows everything. I might be wrong though.

[@masada2828]

Yeh! 😳

[@monkeypunch6284]

meh