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Text Overview of
"Seven Dubious Reasons to
Reject an Ancient Creation"
by Hill Roberts
- 2/1/07
Listen to "Seven
Dubious Reasons to Reject an Ancient Creation" (MP3)
• The Reasons to Believe Huntsville Alabama Chapter met
from 7:00 to 8:30 PM, Thursday, February 1, at Whitesburg Baptist Church,
North Campus, 6806 Whitesburg Drive, Huntsville, Alabama.
• This meeting had scheduled Dr. Mark Whorton to give the first of a two
part series on the topic "Seven Dubious Reasons to Reject an Ancient
Creation." This talk was to be a point by point rebuttal of an article by
Dr. Terry Mortenson of Answers In Genesis on "Seven Reasons Why We Should
Not Accept Millions of Years." (You may review the article at
www.answersingenesis.org/docs2006/0717seven-reasons.asp ) The reasons
given by Mortenson include that the Bible teaches a six 24-hour day
creation, Noah's flood denies old creation, Jesus was a young-earth
creationist, old creation undermines the Bible and is not scientific and
radiometric dating does not prove millions of years. Also Mark Whorton and
Hill Roberts addressed this article while hosting the August 1, 2006, RTB
webcast, Creation Update. This webcast may be re-played at
Hill Roberts & Mark Whorton serve as 8/1/06 Creation Update
scholar team.
Mark Whorton was not able to be at the February 1, 2007 meeting, so Hill
Roberts spoke instead. He used an interesting twist on the "Seven Reasons"
idea, passing out copies of Mortenson's article. He wrote on a whiteboard
rather than using Power Point projection. On one side he listed the "seven
reasons." Rather than refute the reasons, he approached some background and
theological positions and listed them on the other side of the board. These
points were taken from the last two paragraphs of Mortensen's article and
are listed as follows:
* God's word - final authority, authority of scripture
* Character of God
* Doctrine of death
* Genesis is literal history
* Faith in the rest of the Bible
- salvation
- morality
The presentation was quite thought provoking.
• Hill Roberts has BS and MS degrees in physics. He is Chief Scientist at
SRS Technologies, a local aerospace/defense company, and has numerous peer
reviewed scientific publications. He has extensive experience in
scientific based Christian apologetics as the leader of the
Lord, I Believe ministry. Hill is a former elder at Weatherly Heights Church of
Christ where he worships.
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