Evidence for God from Science

Grizz, Thanks for your comments. I can't respond at length here, since I'm out of town at the moment, but here are a couple quick thoughts: 1) When I said wild beasts like lions, etc. were excluded, I took this idea from a commentary that noted the categorical terms for Noah's animals did not includ...

Wow. Hmm...I take it you did not actually read the whole article? Myth, epic, metaphor, and literature are not euphemisms for fiction. Accurate or not (I vote accurate), the Bible is literature. It is a collection of stories. These stories fall under different genres, and are written with different ...

Hello all, I just finished writing a couple articles on Noah's flood, trying to answer the following questions from scripture, history, archaeology, and geology: 1) Where is Noah today (a theological question)? 2) When and where did Noah sail his ark (a historical question)? I did build heavily on p...

Did anyone ever notice that the most oil in the world is found in the Middle East, and most especially the Persian Gulf, and area regarded by many Christians as a possible place for the origin of life, or the Garden of Eden? Possible relationship there, or just a coincidence? It is not entirely acc...

Danny, Thanks again. My research deals primarily with stable isotope proxies for various processes. Currently, I'm working on understanding (and documenting) C and O isotope trends in stalagmites in response to rainfall. In short, isotope ratios in both elements change predictably in response to the...

jlay, Just to clarify then, I am aware of how starting assumptions affect the interpretation of data. Since I did not actually imply that "the data 'does something, or says something apart from the interpretation", I am not guilty of reification, as you assert. It is true that "both i...

jlay, There seems to be a lot of confusion in the terminology, as most of your responses relate to the use of specific words. I can only ask for your patience and that you be careful not to read more than is present in my words or those of other geologists. Here is what I mean: you do hold to a more...

In a quick search, I found a couple interesting titles. "Geoscience meets the four horsemen?: Tracking the rise of neocatastrophism" by Marriner et al., 2010, in Global and Planetary Change provides a discussion on how neocatastrophism has played in to the last century of geological interp...

So, would it be OK to say that the entire globe is a marine platform? You asked for an example where large layers of sedimentary rock, distinct from those above and below it, could be found. Marine platforms are just one example (I gave several others). By marine platform, I am referring to the are...

Thanks Danny,

It's encouraging to hear such feedback, and to find others interested in these topics. I'll drop in when I can to keep the discussions going.

Jon

Greetings, gentlemen! Thank you both for the opportunity to interact on some of these points. I only have time to comment briefly, so I will try to be succinct. [Note: I'm not sure yet how to use this system in citing previous comments, so I apologize if it's hard to follow along] "It isn't sur...