Review – A Matter of Days – Chapter 2
I happened to be watching a debate about Young Earth Creation versus Evolution when I read this today. Some of the evolutionists made the same kind of arguments, that Christians are merely being argumentative and creating dissent, that science was doing just fine until this YEC stuff started a few decades ago. (The rebuttal included the fact that Christians developed the scientific method.)
Daniel
The Gathering Storm
In this short chapter, Ross attacks who he thinks is responsible for the conflict between biblical creationists and old earthers.
In the mid-seventeenth century, however, two British scholars, John Lightfoot and James Ussher, produced commentaries that seeded the clouds of dissention. In their zeal for exactitude (and personal competition), they inadvertently opened the gates for a drenching dogmatism that divided Christian from Christian, and faith from fact, for centuries to come.
- Why would Ross use the term dissension? Ussher was reading his Bible and making use of his reason to learn about history. It is only dissension if someone disagrees with the Bible, and Ussher is in direct agreement with the Bible.
- “Zeal for exactitude” Should we not all desire to be zealous for truth? Ross is being pedantic here by criticizing a biblical scholar for wanting to be studious and careful in his research
- It’s hypocritical…
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