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NEW CUMBERLAND - Four candidates are running for three open positions on the Hancock County Board of Education. Three of those four are current board members.
The non-partisan office, which is set to be decided during the May 13 primary election, features returning board members Laura Greathouse, John Manypenny and Toni Hinerman, along with political newcomer Michelle Chappell.
Chappell believes she has the experience to understand the system, the innovation to bring the most cutting-edge methods to the county, and the leadership to advance Hancock County Schools as one of the best systems in the state.
"One of the biggest challenges ... is the lack of systemic vision," said Chappell, that the county would benefit from a strategic plan.
"I believe that a public office is awarded by voters as a matter of trust," she said.
While Greathouse believes the public has a right to question decisions made by the board, she also emphasizes that her decisions will be based upon what, in her opinion, is best for the children and employees of the district.
"We have a non-biased board and a superintendent who has vision and strength," said Greathouse, adding that it was under the current board that the levy allowing improvements to current schools and the building of the new Weirton Elementary School was passed.
"I know first-hand what is needed at New Manchester Elementary as well as Weir Middle school," Hinerman said.
With time spent as both a teacher and parent in the system, she understands the needs and concerns of both parties.
"Having both perspectives has been helpful to me when making decisions for the board."
Citing Hancock County's newly renovated schools and sports facilities, Hinerman said the area has a lot to offer young families.
Throughout his time on the board, Manypenny has been proactive in working with various county groups, including 4-H, he said.
"You put everything out there for the public. Positive or negative," Manypenny said, adding he recognizes people may not always be happy with the results.
Regarding plans for a Hancock County cyberschool, Manypenny believes the project will improve the area's graduation rate.
"By doing this, we can retain students who might drop out," Manypenny said, adding that those who take cyberclasses will still be monitored.


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Should You Tell Your Kids The Truth About Santa?carolyncastiglia
Two days ago, Babble published a feature by Krista Pfeiffer, titled "In Our House, There's No Santa Claus." So far it's garnered 112 reader responses, both in support of and rallying against Pfeiffer. (Jezebel has highlighted a few comments from both sides of the debate.) In her piece, Pfeiffer argues that "encouraging my kids to be good in order to make Santa's nice list… not only undermine(s) my authority, but it's pure extrinsic motivation." Furthermore, Pfeiffer declares that "Santa Claus represents, for me, all that is not Christmas spirited: receiving instead of giving, greed instead of gratefulness, idle wanting instead of active contributing." (I can't help but agree with Sadie Stein at Jezebel, who calls Pfeiffer out for her "superior" and "condemnatory" tone.)
Pfeiffer sounds a bit haughty when she writes:
Encouraging my children to write letters to him or make Christmas lists or be good because he's watching encourages all the wrong things for me. I want whatever goodness does come out of my children to be for the right reasons. I want them to be people who are simply good and kind and honest, as I try to be (well, most of the time…).
As if those of us who let our kids believe in Santa don't want them to be decent people of their own volition? Hardly. I don't tell my daughter that Santa is "watching" her, because that's just downright creepy. (I've never told her God watches everything she does, either. That'll give anyone a complex. It's one thing when your animals decide to creep in the bedroom while you're getting it on, but Jesus? No thanks.)
In fact, I've told my daughter more about God than I have about Santa. I've talked to my daughter about the fact that some people don't believe in God, and that those who do have different ways of believing and/or worshiping. But Santa? Most of what my daughter has gleaned about Santa she's absorbed from pop culture, Christmas movies, books, store displays, etc. etc. ad nauseum. Of course I've encouraged her belief by exposing her to those things, and by giving her presents from Santa. For the last two Christmas Eve's, we've left Santa a plate full of cookies, and (s)he has eaten every one of them.
My mother, like the friend Pfeiffer mentions in her piece, does claim to have direct access to Santa, which she used to great effect last year. My mother was able to curb my daughter's intense tantrums by having a conversation with Santa on the porch. As soon as my mother said, "Yes, I'll tell her there won't be any Christmas if she doesn't stop," my daughter stopped throwing tantrums – for good. Say what you will about extrinsically motivating your kids to behave well; it's better than pathologizing their bad behavior. I'd been feeling terribly guilty that I'd gotten divorced, thinking I'd screwed my kid up for life. Meanwhile, all it took was a knock on the door from a fictional character to solve the problem, not years of talk therapy. Best present ever.
I don't mind that Pfeiffer doesn't want to bring Santa into her home – as many others have said, that's her business. What I don't like about her take on the jolly old elf is that she ignorantly concludes that believing in him precludes being a charitable person. She insinuates that it is precisely because Santa does not come to her house that her children will "give gifts to the less fortunate, say thank you for what gifts they receive and continue to be kind and do the right thing." But my daughter believes wholeheartedly in Santa, and she also does all of those things. Giving and receiving are not mutually exclusive.
There are other reasons not to bring Santa into your home, though. I had a friend who used to say, "It's a lie. Do you really want to lie to your children, even if it brings them joy?" Many people think Pfeiffer is on to something, that focusing on the commercial aspects of Christmas are ultimately wasteful and bad for the environment (though Pfeiffer doesn't use environmentalism in her reasoning against St. Nick). What about Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Atheists? How do they feel about Kris Kringle? After all, Santa Claus, despite having Christian roots, has been subsumed by the secular sect and stands as the face of American consumerism this time of year, so you don't have to be religious to enjoy a visit from Father Christmas.
I asked my fellow bloggers what they've told their kids about Santa and whether or not he'll visit their house this year. The answers they gave me run the gamut from wishing they'd never agreed to play along with the charade to still believing in Santa, even as an adult.
Our friend Paula Bernstein told me, "I never told my kids about Santa, but they absorbed the idea (or at least Jesse did). Now, at nearly 9, she no longer believes in God, but she continues to believe in Santa and the Tooth Fairy! We never talk about Santa (e.g. "Santa is coming soon…"), but I also haven't made a point of telling her there is no Santa." Santa visits Paula's house, even though her family is Jewish.
John Cave Osborne wondered to me whether or not "it was fair to play him as the fat, red trump card he clearly is with regard to keeping your kids in line." He told me, "Our daughter is 9, and this is probably the last year, if, indeed, she even still believes. She has every incentive to pretend like she still believes. You know… presents."
Which brings me to an interesting point. Another reason someone once gave me for not allowing a child to buy into the Santa myth is because she wanted her children to know how hard she had to work to buy all of their presents. Why should some non-existent fairy get all the credit? As a single mother, I can relate. My mother's way of handling the Santa debacle when I was a child was to give us some gifts from her and my Dad and some from Santa. That's how I've decided to go about gift-giving as well. As I mentioned on my personal blog, because my daughter is spending Christmas with her Dad this year, my side of the family had our celebration this weekend, so I gave my daughter the presents she was getting from me and told her Santa will come here Christmas Eve morning, his first stop on his trip around the world. I don't mind encouraging the fairy tale. Pfeiffer herself admits that as a child who believed in Santa, she felt "a certain magic about Christmas Day and the night before."
John continued, "Santa, to me, is like those classes that help you on standardized tests. If everyone would quit taking them, no one would have to take them. If everyone would just stop the Santa thing, we'd be able to, too." But the magic Pfeiffer describes is the sole reason, I think, that the Santa myth remains. No one tells their children about Santa because they're delighting in some kind of perverse lie; we tell our kids about Santa because we remember what it's like to believe in magic. We're not exploiting their innocence, we're allowing them to be blissfully duped, to revel in naivete while it's still safe for them to do so. Children learn, eventually, that Santa isn't real, and no one is worse for the wear.
Well, almost no one is worse for the wear. Our friend Sandy Maple shared a story about her older brother and sister, who broke the news in a rather harsh way. "They delighted in telling me there was no Santa when I was five. I distinctly remember sobbing to my mother in the kitchen, begging her to tell me they were lying. She didn't," she said, adding, "My own kid, who is 10 and an only child, pretends she still believes in Santa and we go along with it."
Robin Aronson, who is also Jewish, told me, "I didn't ever believe in Santa, but I did believe in the tooth fairy. We don't celebrate Christmas at all, but we haven't said anything to the kids about whether Santa exists or not. It's kind of DADT around here on the subject. I don't really want to talk about it because my kids DON'T go to a Jewish school so it's not like all the kids are in on the same secret. I want their classmates' parents to make the decision about when to break the news."
And that's probably the most important thing about the whole Santa situation, as Sadie Stein at Jezebel points out. She writes, "Whatever you believe, don't encourage your kid to be the superior killjoy who ruins it for the other kids." Sierra Black was supervising a playdate between her daughter and an older friend, when the older friend turned to her daughter and exclaimed, "You know Santa Claus isn't real." In response, Sierra wrote:
All I know is that Santa Claus buys crazy shit for you that I would never buy. He rides all over the world finding you the perfect gifts, and wraps them up in bows and shiny paper and stuff that is *so* not my style. Santa shoves about a pound of chocolate into your stocking every year? Would I do that? Right.
Maybe my hands carry out his work, but I am not that guy. Santa Claus is as real to me as he is to you.
I couldn't have said it any better myself, especially given the fact that I am about to wrap – as Santa – an American Girl Doll, something I swore I'd never buy for my daughter. Yes, Santa's handwriting may look a bit like mine, but he's his own spirit, indeed. The spirit of giving, wrapped up in a bow of magic and tradition, sprinkled with the glitter of delight.


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Subject: Re: [hwloc-devel] processor restriction + lookup of pid for 1.0
From: Brice Goglin (Brice.Goglin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-01-30 09:32:51
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> Brice Goglin, le Fri 29 Jan 2010 22:48:13 +0100, a écrit :
>> I am looking at the remaining tickets for v1.0. Assuming there are no
>> "critical" warning anymore, and assuming we have done enough for people
>> to combine network topologies (manually for now), only 2 ticket remains:
>> #12 support user-defined processor restriction
>> #21 Allow lookup of specific PIDs
>> I understand #12 but I am not sure what #21 actually needs. We would do
>> a get_cpubind(pid) and then what ? Do a processor restriction as defined
>> in #12 ?
> There is a difference between the current CPU binding (#12) and
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I still don't see much difference. In #12, you get_cpubind(pid=0) and
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Alcorn State has a very tough September schedule, playing the SEC's Mississippi State in the opener before key conference games against Mississippi Valley, Arkansas-Pine Bluff and Alabama State.
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I just entered a bugzilla report for this: Bug 48824 - Amavis/SA: Heuristics.Phishing.Email.SpoofedDomain not detected on delivery
In short, as of recent versions of ClamAV, spoofed domains are detected in the body of html-encoded messages. However, the default config for amavisd doesn't pass the message to ClamAV in a form that will let it look at the right data; only once the message is sent as an attachment via manual junk classification does ClamAV get to see it. Then a notice gets sent to administrator and (not very usefully) to the junk account.
The workaround, and likely solution, is to edit /opt/zimbra/conf/amavisd.conf.in and changetoCode:# qr'^MAIL$', # retain full original message for virus checking (can be slow)(i.e., uncomment the line).Code:qr'^MAIL$', # retain full original message for virus checking (can be slow)
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CanvasPop Enters Flash Site Space with Instagram Art
Today Ottawa's CanvasPop launched the world's first flash sale site dedicated to affordable digital and Instagram art called "LTD. by CanvasPop."
With this move CanvasPop is the first Internet art retailer to enter the group buying market with a strong emphasis on carefully curated art.
LTD. is committed to empowering artists while helping consumers discover remarkable art through a unique shopping experience, CanvasPop says.
This new service puts the artist first by handling all aspects of manufacturing and shipping, then splitting the profits with the artist themselves.
LTD. features each artist for a limited time only, giving shoppers the exclusive opportunity to own a numbered edition print, saving up to 90% over what it would cost in a traditional gallery. Prices will start at $49 for a 12-by-12 inch (a regular value of $299) and just $99 for a 20-by-20 inch (a regular value of $399).
LTD. launched with renowned photographer, Cole Rise (Mono Lake print pictured), one of Instagram's most popular photographers as well as the original creator of Instagram's "Rise" filter and designer of the Instagram logo. Cole has over 235,000 followers on Instagram alone.
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Upcoming artists include well-known photographers Lauren Randolph (also known as Lauren Lemon) and Richard "Koci" Hernandez.


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You've got one pick remaining and have decided to neglect a kicker in search of a super-secret-sexy-sleeper-pick, and sometimes drafting fantasy football late round lottery tickets can pay off. Here are a few to keep tabs on, especially in deeper leagues.
At best, you win the lotto; at worst, you drop them and grab a kicker.
These guys are likely waiver wire material in most standard leagues and many may never see a roster in traditional formats in 2013, but it doesn't hurt to acquaint yourself with a few fantasy football late round lottery tickets.
Fantasy Football Late Round Lottery Tickets: Quarterbacks
Obviously, unless you're in a 2 QB league, or another format where you need additional QB depth, or have a set number of QB roster slots there is little need to take any of these guys. Regardless, here are a few who could surprise in 2013.
Matt Cassel, Minnesota Vikings: All reports out of camp suggest he is at least on par with Christian Ponder, who has shown nothing thus far in his NFL career. Cassel at least has 2 strong seasons under his belt, and you'd have to think with Adrian Peterson around taking some of the opposing defensive focus he could post modest QB totals.
Ryan Fitzpatrick, Tennessee Titans: Jake Locker has been the furthest thing from durable and the Titans have a number of receiving options. Fitzpatrick has put it together in the past for short stints and new scenery could help the veteran.
Chad Henne, Jacksonville Jaguars: He had the monster game against Houston last year in Week 10, jumped on every fantasy waiver wire list and then faded back to mediocrity. Only 32 QBs can start a week though, and Henne could be one of them.
Nick Foles, Philadelphia Eagles: Foles showed some signs of life last season, and Vick has missed 14 games over the past 3 years and is 33 years old. It is very realistic that Foles sees some starts this season and could even land the job out of camp.
Kirk Cousins, Washington Redskins: All signs are pointing to Robert Griffin III being ready for the start of the season, but with a reconstructed knee and a mobile quarterback, a setback is always possible. Furthermore, RGIII has already shown a propensity and susceptibility to injuries.
Fantasy Football Late Round Lottery Tickets: Running Backs
So these are some deep sleepers, late round, deep league targets. In most cases a few things have to fall into place, or injuries or injuries have to occur to make these guys relevant, but in the deepest formats there might be some lightning in a bottle.
Mario Hardesty, Cleveland Browns: The injuries have caught up to Hardesty, and he has never performed anyway. He is now a mere handcuff to Richardson, and one who doesn't project to get many touches. However if he is finally healthy and Richardson goes down, he stands to do well. Just keep tabs, because he has to actually be 2nd on the depth chart.
Stepfan Taylor, Arizona Cardinals: Rashard Mendenhall is the starter and Ryan Williams is set to be next in line, but neither have ever been able to stay healthy. Taylor is a power-back from a college running a pro-system, and could get an opportunity in 2013.
Mike Tolbert, Carolina Panthers: He does his best work around the goal line and in short yardage situations and has been a top 40 fake RB the last 3 seasons. Combined with Jonathan Stewart already nursing an injury and DeAngelo Williams isn't getting any younger, Tolbert may not be so far off getting a crack at things.
Mike Gillislee, Miami Dolphins: The Gator alum excels at nothing, but is well-rounded, a threat in the receiving game, and capable of stepping in immediately. Lamar Miller is unproven and Daniel Thomas is nearing bust territory.
Knile Davis, Kansas City Chiefs: With only Shaun Draughn to beat, the speedy, yet unproven back would be the next option behind Jamaal Charles. In an offense that is going rely on their running back, Davis could be a major factor if Charles were ever banged up.
Joique Bell, Detroit Lions: More suited for PPR formats, Bell was actually better than Leshoure on the ground last season too. Unfortunately he'll likely need a Bush or Leshoure injury to get any real opportunity at fantasy production.
Denard Robinson, Jacksonville Jaguars: With no defined role it is tough to project what Robinson's impact will be fantasy-wise, but he is a home run waiting to happen. Explosive, versatile and a potential game changer, Robinson could earn opportunities.
Fantasy Football Late Round Lottery Tickets: Wide Receivers
There is quite the mix here, a couple veterans, three rookies and a hopeful 3rd year breakout candidate. Receivers need to receive targets to be effective in the fake football game we love, so it is all about opportunity. Once a guy can carve out a role and gain the trust of his QB and coach, the results will follow.
Terrance Williams, Dallas Cowboys: The All-American has ideal size and a huge vertical leap, but isn't the fastest and is off to a slow start in camp. He might not be able to supplant Dwyayne Harris, but if he does he could be a threat, especially with so many other options defenses need to focus on.
Corderrelle Patterson, Minnesota Vikings: Similarly to Williams, Patterson is raw, lacks the polish and will need some NFL seasoning. However, we've seen receivers come out of nowhere and produce and Patterson may have a clearer path to playing time.
Jason Avant, Philadelphia Eagles: You wont find many steadier possession receivers in football. I know that doesn't win league titles, but especially in PPR formats, Avant may have enough value to fill in from time to time. Low upside, which isn't what these picks are all about, but he will be relevant.
Markus Wheaton, Pittsburgh Steelers: The Steelers have a history of developing their wide receivers quickly and Wheaton is a burner would could test defenses. Temper expectations, but he could emerge as a big play threat by season's end.
Tandon Doss, Baltimore Ravens: Boldin is gone and Doss is an ideal replacement. He is a quality route runner, who boasts good hands and size. He could turn into a PPR gem and Flacco favorite with Dennis Pitta also a non-factor this season the opportunity should be size to seize.
Brandon Lloyd, Free Agent: So he didn't click with the Pats last season, but he has to sign, right? If he does, he instantly becomes fantasy relevant and right now he is going undrafted a lot. There is no risk and all kinds of upside. If he doesn't end up signing you just drop him for the next best option.
Fantasy Football Late Round Lottery Tickets: Tight Ends
Unless you have to fill a required roster spot, you really shouldn't be worrying about a TE late. However, there are all kinds of formats out there and deep leagues where a you might need to reach for a TE late, so here are a few options.
Delanie Walker, Tennessee Titans: The former Niner is way off the grid, but is set to be the every-down tight end. You shouldn't expect miracles, but there should be some opportunities and he'll be on the field.
Gavin Escobar, Dallas Cowboys: Unless Jason Witten gets hurt (and he plays through everything it seems), Escober's greatest fantasy relevance will be the targets he steals from Witten, effecting Witten owners. The Cowboys took him early for a reason though, and he could be a surprise.
Mercedes Lewis, Jacksonville Jaguars: Remember when Lewis put up a top 5 TE season? Feels like a lifetime, but it wasn't even that long ago. Although he likely isn't going to get back anywhere near that level of production… but he has done it before.


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Dr. Brown Interviews Dr. William Lane Craig and Takes Your Apologetics Questions
September 4, 2012 | 61 Comments
In the first hour, Dr. Brown will interview Prof. William Lane Craig, one of the world's foremost Christian apologists, and they will take your calls as well. In the second hour, Dr. Brown will share some of his own apologetics principles and will continue to take your calls. Listen live here 2-4 pm EST, and call into the show at (866) 348 7884 with your questions and comments.
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61 Responses to "Dr. Brown Interviews Dr. William Lane Craig and Takes Your Apologetics Questions"
September 4th, 2012 @ 3:49 pm
I am living testimony that I came to Christ via argument; good, objective reasons for belief were the starting point for me. I am college educated and needed deep, methodical reasoning to get me to find Christianity credible. Greg Koukl and William Lane Craig for general reasons. And as I have said several times before, Dr. Brown, your answers to Jewish objections made it possible to think aobut taking the plunge (so to speak, in the Holy Immersion) for this secular Jew. Willian Lane Craig is one of the great pillars of Christian apologetics in our day.
David Roberts
September 5th, 2012 @ 1:39 am
I was shocked to see Dr. Craig accuse peshaṭ readers of the Genesis account of reading into the text, only then to go on to say how animals would have attacked and eaten each other, when Genesis clearly says that God gave green herbage for ALL animals to eat (before the fall), like it will be in the millennial reign:
The cow will feed with the bear (eating grass),
their young will lie down together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox. Isaiah 11:7
The wolf and the lamb will feed together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox,
and dust will be the serpent's food. Isaiah 65:25
David Roberts
September 5th, 2012 @ 1:58 am
Not to mention that EVERY time in the Bible it numbers a day and says evening and morning it means a day.
For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening and took his stand. 1 Samuel 17:16
Did the Philistines come forward for forty periods of time, perhaps thousands or millions of years?
Modern "popular" science is based on the fabricated history set forward by Charles Lyell who publicly proclaimed that he wanted to "free the science (Geology) from Moses('s history of the world)."
What Christians have to get through their heads is:
You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Ya'aqov 4:4
Christians want the world to respect them and treat them like enlightened, smart, intellectual people, so they buy into the millions of years so they won't have to experience the scorn of the world. Try believing in the Tora's history, and everyone will attack you from all sides.
101 evidences for a young age of the earth and the universe:
September 5th, 2012 @ 5:14 am
Really like the link, Mr. Roberts.
September 5th, 2012 @ 7:27 am
Funny how we hear things differently. I heard Dr. Craig say that one could make a decent case for a young Earth from reading the Bible, but he found it pushing against the scientific knowledge of our time – but that overall it has hurt evangelism when people think that the only valid choice for a Christian to believe is a yhoung Earth.
Also as to each day and evening, Dr. Craig (and Dr. John Lennox) both point out that nowhere does it say in Genesis that each day of Creation was in immediate succession of the previous day of Creation. We assume that in the reading because of the way we are raised to think and read in our culture.
David Roberts
September 5th, 2012 @ 7:13 pm
It was the 9th of September 2012, and Jimmy started a new diet and workout. He did one hundred push ups, and ate no icecream, evening came, then the morning came – day one. Then Jimmy ran around the block ten times and ate 6 eggs, evening came, then the morning – the second day. Then Jimmy…
Ok, so you're telling me that when you read that you were thinking, oh there's millions/billions of years somewhere in there?
David Roberts
September 5th, 2012 @ 7:25 pm
@Dan1el, I'm glad you enjoyed the link.
I was disgusted at Dr. Craig's intellectual offence at a supernatural quick creation of the plants and the trees in one day. He obviously worships a naturalistic god who is limited in how he creates things. He forgets that:
The Lord God provided a leafy plant and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was very happy about the plant. But at dawn the next day God provided a worm, which chewed the plant so that it withered… the Lord said, "You have been concerned about this plant, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight. Jonah 4:6-7, 10
The same kind of thinking rejects the supernatural miracles of Jesus, because we don't see much supernatural events in the west, therefore Jesus couldn't have grown people's limbs and walked on water. I mean, how long does it take a limb to grow from a fertilised egg? That's the exact kind of logic. Yet many times Jesus did it simultaneously!
The TRUE and LIVING GOD IS supernatural. Maybe he should read Craig Keener's book – Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts
David Roberts
September 5th, 2012 @ 7:29 pm
One last comment about Dr. Craig, he misrepresented young earthers view on how we can see starlight. To understand how God really did, check out this amazing video!
Starlight and the Young Earth by Dr. Charles Jackson
There's another one, but the one above is my favourite:
September 5th, 2012 @ 8:32 pm
Dr. Brown,
I would like to hear your specific opinion, as a O.T. and Semitic scholar, regarding Genesis 1 and the length of days concept. I have heard the various guests that you've had in the past and their opinions, and I've also heard you quote the wide range of scholars on both sides; however, I have not heard you declare where you stand based upon your exegesis of this chapter.
David Roberts
September 6th, 2012 @ 2:30 am
Dr. Brown specifically answered your question in the show @70:23.
I felt it was partially honest, but not fully.
September 6th, 2012 @ 8:16 pm
Thank you for pointing me to Bro. Mike's response to the caller.
Dr Michael L Brown
September 6th, 2012 @ 8:24 pm
I know you normally try to be respectful here (when I've read your comments), but this is totally out of line re: Dr. Craig: "He obviously worships a naturalistic god who is limited in how he creates things." Future posts like this will be pulled as violating our guidelines.
As for my answer to the question about "day" in Genesis 1, what was not "honest" about it?
September 6th, 2012 @ 8:48 pm
Dr. Brown,
It was good to hear your view on the day-age question from Genesis 1. To be honest, I find myself a bit baffled by the justification from scholars who advocate the old earth theory. I heard Walter Kaiser attempt to say that the first usage of yom allows for millions of years and that all of the reputable Hebrew lexicons (i.e., BDB, Holladay, Baumgartner) have it wrong. Again, Dr. Craig's rationale, being based upon the need of time for vegetation to grow is absurd, when referring to our supernatural G-d.
What I see as fundamental to the Christian faith as a whole, especially in the reading and interpretation of Genesis, is accepting the validity of Scripture when it is explained in a basic manner. This lies in the hermeneutical principle of logic – that the writer means what he says – and that one should adhere to the literal meaning of a word or phrase, unless there are compelling reasons for adopting a figurative or derived interpretation.
If G-d really meant that the "evening and the morning" did not constitute a day (as we know it) then we have no reason to believe anything else that is recorded to be true. When one reads Genesis 1 in the most plain sense of its meaning, one will not draw a hidden, millions of years in time to be confined within a day, unless he has allowed his scientific influence to draw such a conclusion.
Every little child and seeker of the truth has been told that every word in the bible is true, and that it means what it says; however, we must now tell them that it really doesn't mean what it says – even though it is written in clear language. I do not believe that one must perform eisegesis to understand G-d's message of creation, and that the simplest of minds, standing on faith and His Word are being deceived in trusting that G-d meant "a day" when He said, "So the evening and the morning were the — day."
I am don't dogmatic in advocating a young earth based upon the genological lines within Scripture, but I refuse to submit to the influence of science, which will in turn force me to perform scriptural gymnastics simply to satisfy the skeptics and human reasoning.
Dr Michael L Brown
September 6th, 2012 @ 9:37 pm
Thanks for your answer, and I have no problem at all with your position. For numerous reasons, all biblically based, I have come to the conclusions I have about Genesis 1 and, as stated on the radio, it's pretty clear that Hebrew yom has the same range of meanings as the English word day. More importantly, I'm convinced that the purpose of Genesis 1 is to teach us about God (and I also accept it as being accurate and true in whatever it says). Again, the more natural reading of the text points to a young earth; but it is absolutely not the only possible reading of the text, as I mentioned on the air as well.
September 6th, 2012 @ 10:31 pm
Dr. Brown,
Thank you for your thoughts and response. – Shalom
David Roberts
September 7th, 2012 @ 3:03 am
@Dr. Brown,
I know you normally try to be respectful here (when I've read your comments)
I do try.
but this is totally out of line re: Dr. Craig: "He obviously worships a naturalistic god who is limited in how he creates things."
Ok. I re-read what I wrote, and I apologise and take back saying "who is limited in how he creates things". Clearly Dr. Craig believes God is all powerful, but just choose to create the universe the way the atheists would choose to believe it – specifically, with millions of years. Dr. Craig would not see that as a weakness on the part of God, but rather how God choose to do it. Is there anything else you would like me to take back?
As for naturalistic, I was referring to his statement at 44:10,
He says, "Let the earth bring forth vegetation, bearing seed after its kind, and fruit trees, bearing fruit after their kind." Now we all know how long it takes for an apple tree to grow up and blossom and bear apples.
The Oxford English dictionary's primary definition of naturalistic is:
"derived from or closely imitating real life or nature"
i.e. how long nature takes to grow up and blossom an apple tree.
I meant naturalistic in the sense of non-miraculous, but as to his statement "we all know how long it takes". Yes, we do.
The next day Moses entered the tent and saw that Aaron's staff… had not only sprouted but had budded, blossomed and produced almonds. Numbers 17:8
The Lord God provided a leafy plant and made it grow up over Jonah… It sprang up overnight and died overnight. Jonah 4:6, 10
That's the scriptural knowledge we have of how long it takes – overnight. The context of Genesis is the miraculous creation of the world by God from nothing, not your everyday event. With that knowledge, for Dr. Craig to go onto say,
In order for that to happen in twenty four hours, this author would have to be imagining…
Moses was not imagining anything.
שמעו נא דברי אם יהיה נביאכם יהוה במראה אליו אתודע בחלום אדבר בו לא כן עבדי משה בכל ביתי נאמן הוא פה אל פה אדבר בו ומראה ולא בחידת ותמנת יהוה יביט ומדוע לא יראתם לדבר בעבדי במשה
My spirit was deeply grieved at how you both laughed at what Dr. Craig called "time-lapsed", but I call the miraculous work of God.
As for my answer to the question about "day" in Genesis 1, what was not "honest" about it?
The pure emeth is what the late Hebrew scholar James Barr said in a personal letter to David C.C. Watson, 23 April 1984. He acknowledged that it was only the perceived need to harmonise with the alleged age of the earth which led people to think anything different—it was nothing to do with the text itself.
So far as I know, there is no professor of Hebrew, or the Old Testament, at any world-class university who does not believe that the writer(s) of GENESIS chapter 1, verses 1-11, intended to convey to their readers the ideas that:
(a) Creation took place in a series of six days, which were the same as the days of 24 hours we now experience;
(b) The figures contained in the Genesis genealogies provided, by simple addition, a chronology from the beginning of the world up to later stages in the biblical story; and
(c) That Noah's flood was understood to be worldwide and extinguish all human and animal life, except for those in the ark…
To put it negatively, the apologetic arguments which suppose the "days" of creation to be long eras of time, the figures of years not to be chronological, and the flood to be a merely local Mesopotamian flood, are not taken seriously by any such professors, as far as I know. The only thing I would say to qualify this is, that most such professors may avoid much involvement in that sort of argument and so may not say much explicitly about it one way or the other. But I think what I say would represent their position correctly."
To find out how qualified he was to make a statement like that, you can check him out here:
A fully dishonest answer would be to say that Genesis could equally point both ways. Your answer was half way between that and Barr's honest admittal.
As for me, I'll go with what the finger of God burnt into the two tablets of stone as an everlasting memorial and focal point of faith.
כי ששת ימים עשה יהוה את השמים ואת הארץ את הים ואת כל אשר בם וינח, ביום השביעי על כן ברך יהוה את יום השבת ויקדשהו
Dr Michael L Brown
September 7th, 2012 @ 10:51 am
Thanks for your detailed and literate post. Much appreciated. As for James Barr, I've been reading and appreciating his work since the mid-1970′s. But I'm also a biblical and Hebrew scholar (although surely not comparing myself to Barr), and for exegetical (not philological) reasons, I don't see the biblical text as decisive in terms of the age of the earth. Again, how in the world can you say there is anything dishonest about that? Some of the top medieval rabbinic exegetes felt the same way, obviously without any science arguing for an old earth. Were they dishonest on any level?
September 7th, 2012 @ 11:11 am
David Roberts,
I think that the main reason that old-earthers cannot handle the straight forward reading of Genesis is because distant starlight would then be a trick instead of really coming from billions of light years away. So they find a way to insert billions of years into Genesis. The other reasons are not as hard to answer.
I think that the main reason that young-earthers cannot handle the billions of years inserted into the text, other than the the plain reading being obvious, is because it would make death come before Adam's sin.
So the entire argument is back and forth between a view based upon so-called scientific knowledge and a view that is based upon the language and context of the Bible. Can we mix the two safely?
The presupposition that the Bible cannot be in opposition to what we know from science is the bowing of the knee to man and his ideas when we change the meaning in the scripture to match what man's ideas have produced faith in. Man becomes his own elohim/judge/god in this system.
The presupposition that real science cannot be in opposition to what the Bible declares is true is bowing the knee to an intelligent Creator that can say what He means since He invented language and made all things by words.
If we happen to misunderstand YHWH's words, but trust Him fully and are made to look dumb because of our mistake by man's science, we are better off than twisting YHWH's words to get along with today's secular cosmological view. Trusting is better than twisting.
I am sure that we misunderstand YHWH's word sometimes and that we misunderstand the universe sometimes. Let's make our concessions to YHWH before we do to our understanding of the universe. In this approach we do not end up having to do so much damage control.
There are more Christian youth denying the faith because of so-called science than there are secular youth becoming Christians because of a old-earth view of Genesis that seeks to harmonize the Bible to science. At best this harmonization will only prevent a handful of Christians from denying YHWH altogether and help another handful of intellectuals give mental assent to an elohim that has been made in their own image.
The young earth view has a much better record at preventing apostasy and in producing wholehearted disciples…even if there are only handfuls of these people too.
Pragmatism alone should convince us of which view is more correct.
Psalm 24
3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
The philosophy of materialistic science is not some innocuous, amoral system of knowledge. It is lifting up our souls to vanity. It is an enemy of faith in the true Elohim. And when I say faith, I do not mean to say mental assent but mindful ascent up the narrow path.
James 2
18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
David Roberts
September 7th, 2012 @ 4:56 pm
@Dr Brown,
I'll look into the "top medieval rabbinic exegetes". My guess before looking into it, would be because though they didn't believe in millions of years, some in the scientific community were disputing certain aspects of the history of Genesis, pushing for an earth thousands of years older than what a peshaṭ reading of Genesis would have it.
David Roberts
September 7th, 2012 @ 5:00 pm
If you want to be blown away with the majesty and power of God, please watch this video, which answers the starlight question. It has to do with how God stretches out the heavens. If everything was created in the center and then God stretched everything out…
Dr Michael L Brown
September 7th, 2012 @ 5:11 pm
First, you're quite wrong about rabbinic exegesis. It was not based on scientific discussion. Second, your accusation about lack of honesty in my exegesis is a false accusation that should be retracted should you wish to continue in dialog. Third, Dr. Craig worships a supernatural, majestic God. He differs with your view of how God might work in creation. Fourth, none of my views about the Scriptures are based on science. I do not consider myself capable of arguing the matter either way. Clear?
David Roberts
September 7th, 2012 @ 7:51 pm
@Dr. Brown,
Second, your accusation about lack of honesty in my exegesis is a false accusation that should be retracted should you wish to continue in dialog.
I'll say that for me to say you were only partially honest, is to say that you knew better in your heart, but said otherwise anyway. And for that, I apologise. Only God knows what's in your heart. Not I.
Third, Dr. Craig worships a supernatural, majestic God. He differs with your view of how God might work in creation.
A God who grew the trees at naturalistic rates, not the miraculous rate of one day, like Numbers 17:8, Jonah 4:6, 10.
Clearly creating the heavens and the earth in six days is more miraculous, than slowly using naturalistic processes over millions/billions of years.
Fourth, none of my views about the Scriptures are based on science.
Ok, but I would say that Moses didn't believe that the earth was millions or billions of years old.
I do not consider myself capable of arguing the matter either way. Clear?
I heard you speak on the show about how you view yourself with regards to science and how you have your field and other's have their's. All parts of the body working together. I hear that.
September 7th, 2012 @ 8:06 pm
David Roberts,
I read Russell Humphreys "Starlight and Time" as many years ago as it came out and have read some of Jason Lyles ideas also. I have no problem with the general theory of relativity explaining how time runs at different speeds, but YHWH could have made starlight in place and functioning so as to be signs in the heavens for us, or He could have stretched out the heavens in a different way than the GTR can explain. I simply believe what is said in Genesis. Thanks for the link.
I doubt that Dr. Brown would be less than completely honest. I think that he is wrong sometimes, but never dishonest.
In this case, I see that he can argue for what could be the possible interpretations of "yom" but I think that it means what it would have meant to the people to whom He was speaking with originally. The context of the story and the people that first read it seem to indicate that the days were quite literal.
If death only came after sin and sin entered the world with Adam's transgression and all of creation was subjected to vanity and groans for the restoration of what was in the beginning, then billions of years cannot work no matter what the possibilities of the meaning of "yom" might be. We cannot have animals killing and eating other animals for billions of years before sin entered the world if death came by sin. We do not see that anything but green herbs being food for animals in Genesis and I never knew an animal to disobey YHWH in the scripture. Fish are especially obedient.
That we might see a "possible" alternative to this type of reading that "might" be in harmony with billions of years is not likely to be the probable meaning. It does seem that old-earthers are arm chair quarterbacking and re-engineering the intended meaning, if you ask me.
Shabbat Shalom
David Roberts
September 7th, 2012 @ 8:20 pm
@Dr. Brown,
As for being quite wrong about rabbinic exegesis and it not based on scientific discussion.
The Rambam in his "Guide for the Perplexed" (2:25) said,
Owing to the absence of all proof, we reject the theory of the Eternity of the Universe: and it is for this very reason that the noblest minds spent and will spend their days in research. For if the Creation had been demonstrated by proof, even if only according to the Platonic hypothesis, all arguments of the philosophers against us would be of no avail. If, on the other hand, Aristotle had a proof for his theory, the whole teaching of Scripture would be rejected, and we should be forced to other opinions. I have thus shown that all depends on this question. Note it.
Thus demonstrating that popular scientific theory, when it seems to have been proven true, should determine how we read the Bible.
Jews were being taken away from the faith by philosophy and science, so Rambam was trying to harmonise them to bring Jews back to faith.
Rambam however did highly regard Ibn Ezra's commentary which says,
One day refers to the movement of the sphere.
David Roberts
September 7th, 2012 @ 8:30 pm
@Dr. Brown, who were these top medieval rabbinic exegetes that didn't believe the six days of creation were six rotations of the earth?
From my studies, I've learned that almost all of them did hold to the six days of creation being six rotations of the earth.
Dr Michael L Brown
September 7th, 2012 @ 10:01 pm
Apology accepted, but you really need to back off from the false accusation against Dr. Craig and just drop it. Also, you should be aware that James Barr, with all his Hebrew and Semitic brilliance, is also a strong opponent of fundamentalism (just FYI).
Re: rabbinic interpreters who did not press a literal six-day creation, I'll get you some references ASAP.
Dr Michael L Brown
September 7th, 2012 @ 10:02 pm
I hit Submit Comment too soon. Start with the Ramban's commentary.
David Roberts
September 8th, 2012 @ 12:42 am
@Dr. Brown,
I appreciated your response.
I did realise James Barr was an opponent of fundamentalism, I just value how he made a distinction between
…what the writer(s) of GENESIS chapter 1, verses 1-11, intended to convey…
And his own personal beliefs. i.e. He didn't try to read his own personal beliefs into the text.
But again, I shouldn't have said what I said before.
I have read Ramban's commentary.
But what I found profound from Rash'bam and Kimchi was why they said the Torah said:
ויהי ערב ויהי בקר
Instead of
ויהי לילה ויהי יום
Kimchi said that we might have been confused by the word יום, which can mean a single day or a period of days, and it was precisely for this very reason that the Torah said בקר which is a specific time of the day when the intensity and quality of the light is visible far greater than the light available during the night, likewise with ערב.
Rash'bam said the words ערב ובקר were used to let us know that the first of the six days of God's creative activity of which He spoke in the Ten Commandments had come to an end.
David Roberts
September 8th, 2012 @ 1:19 am
I once heard a Jew say, to find out if something is AntiSemitic or not, apply the exact same scenario to a Black person and see how your conscience feels about it. I'd like to do something similar.
Imagine if a Believer said most people understand that Aaron's rod sprouted, budded, blossomed and produced almonds overnight. Now we all know how long it takes for an almond tree to grow up and blossom and bear almonds. In order for that to happen in twenty four hours, this author would have to be imagining something like time-lapsed photography where the tree would sprout out of the ground, it would erupt and grow up into a big tree. All the blossoms would pop out, and then the fruit, bang bang bang – all over it. And I can't believe in that the author of the Torah thought he was describing something like that, like a film being run on fast forward.
This is why I think that the text is not meant to be taken as a twenty four hour time period.
i.e. Because he can't believe it.
If, the Bible truly does teach that it happened overnight, that would mean Dr. Craig does not believe what the Bible teaches with regard to this. You can say it's a disputed text if you like, but from where I'm standing, this is like Churches that embrace Homosexuality and say it's not because society has biased them in favour of Homosexuality, but rather that the Biblical text can also be read in a way that affirms Gay relationships.
The original at 44:19.
David Roberts
September 8th, 2012 @ 4:20 am
@Dr. Brown,
I just want to state that I do not intend to create strife. It's the last thing I want. I just take these issues very seriously, that's all, and feel compelled to say something about it.
I want to make very clear that I think that the vast majority of the time I think you're doing the Lord's work. And you're doing such a commendable job.
My soul, heart and spirit long for the day when Elijah comes and brings unity to us all, when we can all be united, as a team, sided together.
Dr Michael L Brown
September 8th, 2012 @ 10:55 pm
I appreciate your heart in all this and I thank you for your kind words. I just don't understand why young earthers often respond with such intensity to those who for exegetical grounds differ with the dogmatic nature of their position. That's something that concerns me.
David Roberts
September 9th, 2012 @ 1:35 am
The answer to that is that from the stand point of many young earthers, this is a matter of doctrinal truth, and that to go against it undermines the entirety of the Scripture. Because if Genesis doesn't have to be read in a straight, matter of fact way, neither does the rest of the scriptures. And though you don't go around with the insanity of Gay Marriage in the Church, and I commend you for that! more and more Churches sadly are, and you'll notice they tend to be old earthers, while young earthers tend to be more traditional/fundamentalistic.
I would be very interested in knowing how many of the older earther churches are pro-Gay marriage, and how many young earthers (if any) are pro-Gay marriage.
It comes back to how much wiggle room one believes there is within the text – how much is left up to one's own interpretation.
My greatest concern is that once you open that door, it might not be a problem in your generation, but several generations down the line, they might be saying there are exegetical grounds for Gay marriage and that those who oppose it are dogmatic fundamentalists.
Ryan B
September 9th, 2012 @ 2:06 am
I think apologetics is an important aspect of a believer's walk with the Lord. However, I believe it is of upmost importance that any "defense" be in-line with the Word of God. First of all, let me just state, that I believe apologetics is a very broad term. It is ANY "answer/defense for the reason of the hope that is within us"…not just a particular type of answer. With that said, however, most of the apologetic material I've read (particularly just after I got saved) tended to be slated toward deep, philosophical, humanistic methods of justifying a particular aspect of the Christian faith. While much of this material was (and is) intellectually stimulating (making good for debate & conversation), I think the trap that one can fall into with this type of reasoning is to limit God to our realm of thinking – effectively putting Him in a box for the purpose of intellectual peace…yet sadly, limiting His power to scope of that box. I can remember reading pages and pages of apologetic arguments without a single Scripture being referenced. While I do believe God to be a reasonable & personable being (given that we His creation, being made in His image, are reasonable & personable ourselves), the Bible is very clear:
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." ~ Is 55:8-9
"Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight." ~ Pro 3:5-6
The apostle Paul, throughout the entirety of the 2nd chapter of 1 Corinthians contrasts the wisdom of men with the wisdom of God…endeavoring that those who came to faith through his vessel should not have their faith "rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God."
Therefore, as I stated before, yes, we as followers of Christ need to, as 1 Peter 3:15 states, "always be prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you." However, let us ensure that that answer exalts the power of God through the use of his Word as opposed to limiting it through earthly reasoning. "For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart." ~ Heb 4:12
David Roberts
September 9th, 2012 @ 2:13 am
@Dr. Brown,
how many exegetical grounds are there for the old earther position?
Could you do a show on it sometime?
I can't accept an old earth for many reasons, but I would like to have a real meeting of the minds, to understand where you're coming from, even if I can not agree.
September 9th, 2012 @ 6:35 am
Dr Brown, (RE: #31)
You said, "I just don't understand why young earthers often respond with such intensity to those who for exegetical grounds differ with the dogmatic nature of their position."
What exegetical grounds have been demonstrated? All I have heard have been philosophical reasoning based upon scientific reconciliatory influence. Believing a billion years "gap" in time between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 is hardly concise biblical exegesis. Neither is believing that long periods of time are needed for vegetation to grow demonstrating the same in like manner.
Regarding Ref # 14, you said, " it's pretty clear that Hebrew yom has the same range of meanings as the English word day."
This is true in a general sense; however, the hermeneutical principle regarding the rule of definition is understood in the concept that a word is defined based upon the context it is rendered. Hence, when the Tanakh uses 'yom' as associated with a definite numeral, the evidence demonstrates overwhelmingly that solar days are meant.
You also said, " Again, the more natural reading of the text points to a young earth; but it is absolutely not the only possible reading of the text, as I mentioned on the air as well."
Based upon exegesis alone, what is a old earth rendering that you would agree with from Genesis 1?
Dr Michael L Brown
September 9th, 2012 @ 9:08 am
David and Brian,
Check out older shows I've done here on Genesis 1. And I don't read Genesis 1 in isolation from the rest of the OT.
One quick note though re: Brian's comment that "when the Tanakh uses 'yom' as associated with a definite numeral, the evidence demonstrates overwhelmingly that solar days are meant." Whether that's true or not, when you have a context in which the sun doesn't exist, how does that prove your point?
This much is clear to me: When I see people respond in ways that are not Christlike, it makes me wonder what is behind their position. I absolutely hold to the full and total authority of Scripture, period, and science is a non-issue for me here, as I've said repeatedly. Yet when someone crosses the line in attacking me (and others) who differ on the young earth view (actually, I've never made a dogmatic statement about this either way!), what I see is something wrong in their spirit.
Perhaps my question could have been better phrased: Why do some young earthers so quickly get in the flesh and engage in non-Christlike rhetoric when their position is challenged exegetically?
David Roberts
September 9th, 2012 @ 4:39 pm
@Dr. Brown,
when you have a context in which the sun doesn't exist, how does that prove your point?
Easy, the lamb was the light of the world until we could see the physical sun, and the day refers to the rotation of the earth. More importantly, is the meaning of ערב ובקר, can you show me anywhere in the Bible where those words mean millions/billions of years?
September 9th, 2012 @ 4:40 pm
Dr. Brown,
I have listened to your older shows and don't recall hearing your exegesis of Genesis 1 that would validate the possibility of an old earth view, this is why I asked for you to demonstrate substantiation on this thread.
As far as your question regarding the use of yom, you asked, " when you have a context in which the sun doesn't exist, how does that prove your point?"
What is so very important is that G-d is the one who has established what a day is from the very beginning of His creation and there would be no reason to have a morning and evening up until the day he created a sun and moon, if they were so radically different.
What we discover on day four of the creation account is that the sun and moon were established in the heavens as a servant to the earth; hence, there is absolutely no reason to force a conclusion that the length of time within the same morning and evening has been condensed from billions of years in time, now to be merely 24 hours.
The consistent language for each day cited has remained the same; therefore, I would tend to believe that it would be exegetically sound to realize that the sun and moon didn't establish a 24 hour timeframe from morning to evening, they simply submitted to what G-d had already set forth from the first day.
It is His wonderful creation on this earth that has discovered the revelation of what a day is through these great lights that have been set in the heavens to declare His glory through the ages to come.
David Roberts
September 9th, 2012 @ 4:46 pm
@Dr. Brown,
I would also ask what exegetical grounds are you aware of that Barr wasn't?
Dr Michael L Brown
September 9th, 2012 @ 5:16 pm
David and Brian,
As you know, I don't have time to get into extended discussions here with virtually anyone, and I've already posted more than I usually do. What saddens me is your responses to a very serious and important question.
Look, folks challenge me constantly on some of the most critically important issues of the faith — some from within the Body — and I don't reply to them the way some young earthers do when attacking old earthers, yet I've seen an ugly spirit come out over this issue all too often, including right here.
I'd encourage you to do some serious soul searching here rather than simply challenging my views.
September 9th, 2012 @ 7:05 pm
Dr. Brown,
I'm a bit surprised to be accused of being charged with attacking you. I've only communciated with you from an exegetical perspective alone.
I have tremendous respect for you and your scholarship, and have both followed and supported your ministry for almost 20 years, from the days you preached at Times Square Church onward.
I have asked for your opinion because of my respect for you, so as to make me think and to consider the old earth view from an exegetical view alone.
I apologize to both you and to any readers for my offense towards you and this blessed ministry.
Dr Michael L Brown
September 9th, 2012 @ 9:13 pm
I apologize to you for implying that you had attacked me. I was referring to David's attacks on Dr. Craig and me (which I addressed earlier) along with the general spirit I've all too often seen from other young earthers. By speaking in generalities to both of you, however, I wrongly implicated you. Please forgive me, and thanks for the very kind words.
I'll try to locate the past show(s) where I've addressed the issue, but in short, I don't see Genesis 1 teaching us primarily about science but rather about the nature of God the Creator (in keeping with the ANE cosmologies), so while I have zero problem with an exegetical reading of the passage that points to a young earth, I don't see it as required by the text. (Sorry for the short reply.)
David Roberts
September 9th, 2012 @ 9:44 pm
@Dr. Brown,
Again, I'm sorry for attributing heart attitudes to you.
But to me, though Genesis is not primarily teaching science, it is primarily teaching history, and any scientific theory that disregards true documented history should be discarded.
I don't believe that just because there was no sun for three days that standard hermeneutics don't apply.
Dr Michael L Brown
September 9th, 2012 @ 9:48 pm
As I said, I fully accepted your apologies, and, to repeat, I'm not able to get into lengthy interaction here on this site (which, as you know, exists mainly for the involvement of others). I still have not received any adequate explanation for the wrong spirit I so often see when the young earth view is challenged, and that continues to disturb me.
David Roberts
September 9th, 2012 @ 10:14 pm
@Dr. Brown,
I appreciated that you can't get into a lengthy interaction.
As to why those who hold to a young earth view respond they say they do. Many of them see it as blasphemy, and can't fathom someone whose conscience doesn't bear witness against them. So by default, Believers should know better and to deny the six days is to be dishonest and play games with the text, because it goes without saying that Genesis conveys a young earth.
Or to put it more simply, like some Christians hit the roof over Gay marriage, they hit the roof over what they see as a denial of the true history of the world revealed by God to Moses.
That said, I'm going to do my best to be very careful with my words in future.
Dr Michael L Brown
September 10th, 2012 @ 10:22 am
You should realize that the more they/you "hit the roof," the more it makes their/your position look suspect, and the fact that they/you can't see how people would see things differently — even based on the wording of 2 Pet 3 re: the Lord and a day — in honest interaction of the text makes them/you look suspect in your position.
There's one young earther I know and I would love to give him far more exposure, but he's too caustic.
So, a word for the wise. If you're convinced you're on the side of truth in a critically important subject, then seek to present in a way that will win over those who differ.
David Roberts
September 10th, 2012 @ 5:44 pm
@Dr. Brown,
I appreciate your response. I'll do my best to keep it in mind!
Regarding 2 Peter 3, I understand that the context is the day of the Lord being a thousand years – the millennium. That the six days of creation represent 6000 years from Adam to the second coming, and the seventh day representing the 1000 year reign of Messiah.
Jay Morgan
September 10th, 2012 @ 7:34 pm
Dr. Brown,
I have and do engage in discussions with OECs and TEs regularly and I can tell you that they do not often take the high road. I suppose we could say that both sides are often wrong spirited.
I was listening to your program yesterday and had just turned it on when I heard Dr. Craig respond to the caller in reference Homeschoolers that teach their children from a YEC viewpoint. Dr. Craig's respose was, in a nutshell, that they are hindering evangelism. as a homeschool Dad and a YEC, to say that I was offened would be an understatement. I did not hear your response as I turned my radio off at that point, But I am guessing that you did not accuse him of being wrong spirited.
September 10th, 2012 @ 8:44 pm
@ David and Brian,
To be honest I don't know a single believer that the topic of the age of the earth is of the vital importance you guys are giving it. This isn't a criticism so please don't read this wrong.
While I can understand your line of thinking the reality is that if people want to explain away God and his creation they will. If you can intellectually "argue" someone into the truth someone else can come along later and argue them out of it because their foundation was one of reason rather than conviction in the heart…with our HEARTS we believe and are justified, not our minds.
I don't say this to belittle the importance of accurate doctrine but the simple truth is this…if God gave the same weight as you believe he does concerning this topic he would have made it much more clear to us in his word. He leaves many things in his word "loose-ended", for lack of a better word. While that may sound heretical to some the reality is he is more interested in our relationship with him built on the foundations of repentance, faith and love.
I actually believe the earth is about 6000 years old myself, but it's not the theory of evolution that is destroying faith. The theory of evolution is simply a fruit of a cold, faithless heart From out of the mouth(words/thoughts/theories) the heart speaks….the hearts of the people have grown cold and faithless as the bible predicted. We need to address people's hearts, then the mind will follow.
Dr Michael L Brown
September 10th, 2012 @ 10:32 pm
David, yes, I understand the context of 2 Pet 3 but was simply making a point in passing. Thanks for your gracious response.
David Roberts
September 11th, 2012 @ 2:30 am
There's a lot of truth in what you said.
But for some people the Bible must be rejected because they see that the Bible teaches that death is an enemy, and Adam brought it into the world, and only through the second Adam, can we be freed from sin and death, but theistic evolution teaches that death was part of the will of God before Adam, and perhaps there wasn't even a real Adam, but it's just a story to teach us morals, etc. So they are forced to reject the gospel, because without a perfect world which Adam ruined through sin, bringing death and thorns into the world, why do we need a second Adam to redeem the world?
Also, thorns have been found in strata before dinosaurs. A literal reading of Genesis has the dinosaurs created before Adam sinned, after which God brought thorns into the world as a punishment. If one takes the view that the strata represent millions of years, then you must reject the Bible. But if the strata don't, then there's no problem.
Check this out if you're interested:
Mark Phillips
September 18th, 2012 @ 4:35 am
Regarding Michael's comment – number 46.
Michael,David Pawson shares your non-dogmatic view on creation ; he actually regards this period today as God's EIGHTH DAY of creation (and he regards the SEVENTH DAY as lasting all through First Covenant history). He also says that God is doing things in reverse order this time : whereas in First Covenant Scripture we have God making the earth first,and then populating it with people,this time he is conforming people to the image of His Son,and then bringing the new earth after.
I will give a link here to a talk David gave on evolution ; a talk that I had long wanted to hear,but was eventually disappointed when I heard it ! (Being fallible,like all of us,David is affected by 'carbon dating' ; furthermore,he feels that there is even a possibility God had a man-like prototype in the animal world,who He then upgraded (my words here,not David's) to a modern man (so to speak) at some point in time.
I put a link here to the talk (given in the 70s or 80s) ; excluding the man-like speculation (which I think is a sonething he may have better kept to his close friends),the talk is an informative account on Darwin and society. (You can listen online or download on MP3) It is entitled 'Evolutionary Theory And It's Effects.'
With regard to the caustic guy,I want (as usual !) to say this ; if his problem is causticity,and if it is not solved,his problem if not with old-earthers but possibly with Gehenna itself (the everlasting home for owners of filthy tongues,is it not?). I wonder if this person's tongue is licensed by OSAS or POTS ? I hope he sorts it out. In time you will do a radio show on two of the most neglected PRIMARY areas of authentic disciplehood : 'rudderlogy' (written and spoken words),and authentic clique-less familyhood ? (So far,I have not heard you do a show on these ; and they are are NOT side issues.)
Dustin Turner
October 30th, 2012 @ 2:51 pm
It is surprising to me that Dr. William Craig, a man whom I highly respect was willing to side with "The Science Guy" and say that Christians should not believe that the earth is young nor should they teach it to their children. It is suprising because, as some have aptly noted, this is the most natural reading of Genesis. When the historical narrative of Genesis is read, coupled with the genealogies, we see that the earth is young. To hear Craig express disapproval for those who believe this and teach it to their children is shocking indeed. On this note, I will have to strongly disagree–not with Craig's theology–but with his assertion that this view of Genesis should not be believed by Christians or taught to their children.
October 30th, 2012 @ 7:24 pm
Mark Phillips,
You wrote: "Michael,David Pawson shares your non-dogmatic view on creation ; he actually regards this period today as God's EIGHTH DAY of creation (and he regards the SEVENTH DAY as lasting all through First Covenant history)."
The above statement is pure speculation and had no basis in scripture. The lengths that some people will go to allegorize scripture to conform to their preconceived doctrine is simply amazing…and sad, very sad.
It is not a matter of being dogmatic or non-dogmatic in regard to what Genesis says. It is a matter of believing what it says or not.
As was presented above, by Dustin Turner, it should be quite obvious from the genealogies in scripture how old the earth, as we know it, really is.
All of the first covenant as the seventh day is a concept from la-la land. There is no eighth day of creation. YHWH created everything in six days and rested the seventh. The seventh "spiritual" day, if you will, is the millennium where Messiah's kingdom comes to earth. The eighth "spiritual" day, if you will, is when the new heavens and the new earth come into being. This all fits into the 1000 years is as a day and a day is as a 1000 years.
The idea that the seventh day starts with Moses at Mt. Sinai (first covenant) leaves us with about 2500 years between the end of the creation week and the start of the seventh day. Quite problematic, I'd say. If we count the first 4000 years as some kind of seventh day we have no scriptural reason to do so.
October 31st, 2012 @ 10:07 am
Considering all the crazy chronological chaos that is championed continuously by corrupt, contemporary concepts that are categorically contemptuous toward correctly conceding the capability of our Creator's capacity to communicate concisely His creative commands that coalesced to comprise the complete cosmos, is it not possible that proud persons, presuming to prevaricate, perniciously produce publications that prepare people to be prejudiced against the preponderance of the perfectly probable presentations that prove our present predicament to be six thousand years old and our evenings and mornings to be of the same kind and duration as the ones declared during the creation week?
David Roberts
December 29th, 2012 @ 6:01 am
If what the late Oxford Hebrew scholar, Professor James Barr wasn't enough.
"Professors: A day means a day!
Dr John R. Howitt, a personal friend of mine … wrote to appropriate professors in nine leading universities, asking, "Do you consider that the Hebrew word yom (day), as used in Genesis 1, accompanied by a numeral should properly be translated as
a day as commonly understood,
an age,
either a day or an age without preference?"
'Oxford and Cambridge did not reply, but the professors at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Toronto, London, McGill, and Manitoba replied unanimously that it should be translated as a day as commonly understood. Professor Robert H. Pfeiffer of Harvard added, "of twenty-four hours"? to his reply.'"
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February 26th, 2014 @ 1:53 pm
I've seen William Craig lose debates before but never did he look so bad as he did in this last debate with a cosmologist named Sean Carroll. Craig's followers immediately took the debate off the Internet because Craig lost so badly. I thought Craig was going to break down and cry at the end of the debate. I don't see how here were any theists left in the crowd by the end. Carroll proved that science and Christianity are not compatible and Craig did a great job of proving that too.
April 30th, 2014 @ 10:10 am
I challenge you people to watch the debate between cosmologist Sean Carroll and William Craig. Craig did so poorly in the debate his followers took the debate off the Internet. But Sean Carroll put the debate back up so we can all see what really happened. I doubt any of you Bible believers have the nerve to watch your hero get his lunch handed to him. The truth about things is never of any concern to Bible believers.
April 30th, 2014 @ 10:21 am
Who doesn't have any nerve? Why should anyone listen to you when you have been proven wrong and won't admit it? Why should we listen to a troll?
One who posts a deliberately provocative message…with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument."- http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=troll
When are you going to answer the charge that you took Scweitzer out of context? Did you do it intentionally or were you duped by someone and then just regurgitate the lie? At least admit that you were wrong, even if you won't tell us your motive. Don't dodge or ignore this if you are an honest man. To refresh you memory, here is the challenge:
Below is one of many examples of Van's deception technique. He has been asked repeatedly to either admit that he has posted false testimony or to produce verification of his assertion. After being called on the carpet, he conveniently ignores all rebuttals and continues to regurgitate deception mixed with a huge amount of rhetoric, vitriol and insult. He is not to be taken seriously as scholar or a commentator. He is a troll, and nothing more.
Van wrote:
"'There is nothing more negative than the result of the critical study of the life of Jesus. The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the Kingdom of God, who founded the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth, and died to give his work its final consecration, never had any existence.' – Albert Scweitzer (1875-1965)
You just accused Albert Schweitzer of being classless, unqualified, and simple minded. Par for the course for people who have no respect for intelligence and education.
Many scholars have tried to find evidence from outside the Bible that Jesus really existed. They came up with nothing, absolutely nothing as Dr. Schweitzer said.
You people have bought into all the lies of religion and then you repeat these lies without any hint of a conscience. Calling me a liar when all I do is speak the truth just shows how backward your evil religion really is."
Sheila responded:
"Well, it's a classic move by you to rip a quotation out of context. Who is it you're listening to? It makes no sense for you to drop what you think is a bombshell when all you've done now is make yourself look more foolish because you never considered that Google just might have Schweitzer's book on line.
Anyone who cares to can read further down the chapter and see that Schweitzer was referring to the historic Jesus as He was portrayed by the modern theological historians of his own time. His thought was that "That" Jesus never existed… His point was that we end up molding Him according to our modern way of thinking categorically. We essentially risk minimizing the astonishing profundity of His teachings.
This link begins with the quote you gave us and then explains exactly what Schweitzer was getting at. The man made the cross he wanted on his own grave, for Pete's sake.
http://books.google.com/books?id=uzRXxvPsylkC&pg=PA478#v=onepage&q&f=false "
To date, Van still ignores the proof of his irrelevancy. He continues to persecute in the only way he as power to do. That power, in this instance, being the grace of Dr. Brown. Be sure to thank YHWH that Van is not in any governmental position where his bigotry and prejudice can do more harm.
2 Timothy 3
12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
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