The Myth of Millions of Years
http://www.reason.com/rb/rb072005.shtml
Creationist cosmology is full of wormholes
Ronald Bailey
Lynchburg, VA-Things really went wrong for people of faith 200 years
ago, when modern science got going. So says Dr. Terry Mortenson in his
lecture on "Two Hundred Years of Christian Compromise on the Age of the
Earth." In his book, The Great Turning Point, Mortenson details how
19th century Christian theologians fell for the arguments of secular
geologists who were pushing an "old Earth" interpretation of the
geological record. The dreaded geological doctrine that undermines
faith is "uniformitarianism"-the notion that processes occurring in
the present are the same processes that operated in the past. The
father of geology, James Hutton declared, "No powers are to be employed
that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except
those of which we know the principle."
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