Reasonable Faith, Pt. Four

Ivan:

… I don’t mean to add to your backlog, Tom, but allow me to offer a few words on the fossil record that I’ve just sketched out…

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Ivan:

Hey Tom, I just wanted to check in. I hope you’re doing well. Are you still planning to respond when you get the chance? If so, should I chill, and expect, say, a time frame of months rather than days or weeks?

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Tom:

sorry, I continue to be intermittantly quite sick. I have not forgotten and i will try to get back to you. In the interim, all the issues you raised are abudantly addressed by Ph.D. scientists on www.creation.com
Apologies,
Tom Keenan

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Ivan:

Ah, I’m very sorry to hear that Tom. I hope that your health improves soon, and holds.

I appreciate your referral to creation.com. If I had infinite time, I’d dig in, and look all around the site. But I don’t, so I won’t. Are there any particular resources there that you’d like to point me toward, as direct answers to my particular questions? I’ll reiterate the few we left off with:

1) How much—and, to now put a finer point on it, not only how much, but exactly what—have you personally read about evolution from people who fully accept evolution?

2) The vast majority of experts on evolution believe in (unguided) evolution. How do you account for this? Do you think that all these folks are wrong, perhaps through deficiencies in intelligence or effort, while you are right? Or do you think that there is some sort of willful conspiracy to falsify the science in order to undermine religious belief? Or do you have a different stance?

3) What particular biblical prophecies avoid all of the following: “it could be reasonably explained by simple chance, luck, or guessing… it was vague, cryptic, or metaphorical, rather than clear and perspicuous… it was one among many, and some sort of selective interpretation were used to see the one statement as true without seeing the many as false… it could be a forgery, which was actually produced after the occurrence it seems to predict, or the discovery it seems to predate… it could have itself motivated or guided people to fulfill it”?

Thanks,
Ivan

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