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DMcFadden · #7 (**permalink**) 03-15-2008, 04:31 PM

I have the Great Debate and appreciated it. Be sure to listen to Dr. Mortenson's extra commentary. The moderator is clearly on the side of the old earthers and he does not accord Ham or Lisle enough time to make their points. My only real complaint with the series is that you don't hear enough from Dr. Lisle, the astro-physicist from U of Colorado.

The idea of death before the fall is not a new problem. It has been acknowledged by day-age and progressive creationists for decades. IMO, their answer is weak and does not fit well with the natural reading of Genesis 1-11.

If you like the Great Debate, check out some of the other resources on the AiG site. They offer decent answers to most of the old problems: plate techtonics (rapid subduction as a mechanism modeled in a sophisticated computer program), distant starlight (alternate synchrony conventions or gravitational time dilation), radiometric dating (RATE project), stratigraphy (Mt. St. Helens), etc.

But, the burden of Answers in Genesis is not to provide alternative "evidence." As they say repeatedly, we all have the same "facts." They specialize in presuppositional apologetics. It is in the area of presuppositions and worldviews that the Christian and the naturalist are most obviously at odds. The "facts" are scientifically susceptible to either an old earth or young earth interpretation. One comports well with secular theories of naturalism; the other builds upon a theistic presuppositional base.