CAnswersTV 📤 6 years ago 2011-11-23
See our playlist with 19 videos at http://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0703E78058346A52 called "Dealing with Darwin's Metaphysical Evolution Religion." Larry Wessels, director of Christian Answers of Austin, Texas/ Christian Debater (YouTube channel CANSWERSTV at http://youtube.com/user/CAnswersTV; websites: http://BIBLEQUERY.ORG, http://HISTORYCART.COM & http://MUSLIMHOPE.COM) is joined in studio by the "In Defense of the Faith" crew as they present yet another radio broadcast. The special guest for this presentation is Jim Stambaugh, staff librarian for the Institute for Creation Research (website: http://ICR.ORG), contributor for ICR publications, Christian apologist & is one who has actually debated Hugh Ross.
Hugh Ross has a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics, has a ministry called "Reasons To Believe," & has written many books such as "Fingerprint of God," "The Creator & the Cosmos," & "Beyond the Cosmos" that promotes progressive and day-age forms of old Earth creationism & Biblical reinterpretation to fit his view (such as Noah's Flood was only a local flood & not global & that humanoids existed before Adam). Ross believes that science teaches an old age of the earth and an old age of the universe, based on things he studied & believed when he was 17 years old before his "conversion." Ross claims to have become a Christian when he was 19 years old but he claims that he never met another Christian until 8 years later when he was 27 years old. His conversion testimony is very suspect to say the least & his beliefs are predicated on what he believed before he supposedly became a Christian (1 Corinthians 2:14). Christians are to believe the Word of God (2 Timothy 3:15-17) not reinvent to it to fit personal belief in so-called "scientific" theory (2 Peter 3:16). Ross' unBiblical beliefs fit the heretical Trinity Broadcasting Network well.
Ross seems to be an "evolutionary mole" in the Christian community teaching his own version of theistic evolution (punctuated equilibrium with variations). Theistic evolution or evolutionary creation is a concept that asserts that classical religious teachings about God are compatible with atheistic modern scientific understanding about biological evolution. In short, theistic evolutionists believe that there is a God, that God is the creator of the material universe and (by consequence) all life within, and that biological evolution is simply a natural process within that creation. Evolution, according to this view, is simply a tool that God employed to develop human life.
Dr Richard Bosarth: "But if death preceded man & was not a result of Adam's sin, then sin is fiction. If sin is fiction, then we have no need for a Savior. Christianity has fought, still fights & will fight science to the desperate end over evolution, because evolution destroys utterly & finally the very reason Jesus' earthly life supposedly was made necessary. Destroy Adam & Eve & original sin, & in the rubble you will find the sorry remains of the Son of God & take away the meaning of his death. If Jesus was not the Redeemer who died for our sins, & this is what evolution means, then Christianity is nothing." ("The American Atheist," 1978, p. 19).
Dr William Provine, Professor of History & Biology at Cornell University, stated that "if natural selection explained adaptations & evolution by descent were true, then the argument from design was dead & all that went with it, namely: 1. the existence of a personal God, 2. life after death, 3. immutable moral laws, & 4. the ultimate meaning of life. ("First Things," Oct 1990, p.23).
Dr Provine then shows that a person who claims to be a theistic evolutionist must check their brains at the church house door. He stated: "To resolve this issue, some scientists along with many liberal theologians, suggest that God set up the universe in the beginning &/or works through the laws of nature. This silly way of trying to have your cake & eat it too ... is equivalent to the claim that science & religion are compatible if the religion is effectively indistinguishable from atheism." Provine concluded: "that a person who argues that Darwinism & theism are compatible is 1. an effective atheist, or 2. one who believes things demonstrably unscientific, or 3. asserts the existence of entities or processes for which no shred of evidence exists. Does an intellectually honest Christian evolutionist position exist? The answer is NO! The only way to be a theistic evolutionist is to check your brains at the church house door." (Provine, 1988, p.10).
Theistic evolutionists are meat eating vegetarians. They violate the laws of logic to agree with the unbelieving world (1 John 2:15-17). Evolution - "You have to want to believe in great ages for the universe & the earth IN ORDER to believe it." - Jim Stambaugh
Please reference the website http://ANSWERSINGENESIS.ORG as well.
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