I recently picked up Comprehensive
Guide to Science & Faith (Harvest House).
It's edited by Bill Dembski, Casey Luskin, Joe Holden
& has a FWD>> by Stephen "God Hypothesis" Meyer. Putting "Comprehensive" in the
title is very misleading. The
Biblical position of Creation In Six Days #CISD a Global Flood and Young Earth
Science (YES) is not fairly represented.
The book pushes ID & is wonky on the Historical Adam. See here for more on #Adam ...
https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2014/08/god-adam-you.html
http://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2011/06/search-for-historical-adam.html
Phillip "Darwin on Trial" Johnson (d. 2019),
the Father of ID, started out with arn.org as his main site. Later in life, he apparently leaned young
earth: he visited the Creation Museum (KY) and went on a speaking tour in the
UK with Andrew Snelling (Earth's
Catastrophic Past). Read Art
Battson's work on the arn site which favors biological essentialism - the real
antithesis to evolution:
http://www.arn.org/docs/abstasis.htm
Sadly, the "Comprehensive Guide" fails to see
critical importance of Aristotle's Biology or Biological Essentialism - I wrote
a whole book on the topic (400 pages worth).
Oxford University Press has a book with the same title as mine: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/biological-essentialism-9780198840282
My book Biological
Essentialism came out in 2021, two years before:
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/biological-essentialism-jay-hall/1140135320
David Berlinski (Ph.D. Philosophy - Princeton) was a
postdoctoral fellow in mathematics and molecular biology at Columbia University. His book Human
Nature was endorsed by Victor Davis Hanson, David Galernter and Peter
Robinson (Hoover Inst.) among others. Berlinski
highlights the stark contrast between evolution and biological essentialism:
This book ... is unified ...
by a common concern for what is an indistinct concept, and that is the concept
of human nature. It is a concept severely in disfavor because it suggests that
there is something answering to human nature, some collocation of ineliminable
and necessary properties that collectively define what it is to be a human
being. There are such properties. … And
the fact that there are such properties does involve a commitment to
essentialism. No one disposing of
essentialism in biology is disposed to disregard it in logic, mathematics,
physics, or ordinary life. Human beings are not indefinitely malleable. There
are boundaries beyond which they cannot change. We are not simply apes with
larger brains or smaller hands, and the distance between ourselves and our
nearest ancestors is what it has always appeared to be, and that is practically
infinite. Human beings are perpetually the same, even if in some respects
different. [1]
In an interview, Berlinski continues on the theme:
As an intellectual tendency,
I would put the percentage of people prepared to deny essentialism at roughly
99.999%. ... Darwinian theory holds to a continua of animal forms which
gradually, imperceptively, shade into one another. The dividing line between the dogs, if you go
back and back in time, doesn't end abruptly, it merges into what came before
the dogs. ... That sense of sharp
boundaries must necessarily disappear - there is no room in Darwinian theory
for the essentialist view of the dog's nature. [2]
Human Nature defends human exceptionalism, I have a whole
chapter on that topic in my book:
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/biological-essentialism-jay-hall/1140135320
I also argue in Biological
Essentialism that this premise (stasis of Essential Types of Life - ETLs) naturally
leads to a Single Global Catastrophe that formed most of the rock record just a
few thousand years ago. Which in turn,
favors YES.
In our latest video, we defend #YES & discuss the
total solar eclipse, Dawkins, Kyle Mann, Jesus' AGE verses (Mk. 10:6; Mk.
13:19,20; Lk. 11:50,51), The Young Earth,
Don McLeroy etc. Many origins
researchers ignore the significance of Young Earth Science (YES), but that's a
serious mistake. I provide evidence from
Yandex, Rumble and SwissCows that YES is truly trending:
see also ...
Young Earth Today 2029 (blog article):
https://youngearthscienceblog.blogspot.com/2024/01/young-earth-today-2029-young-earth-memes.html
On a positive note, the cover of the "Comprehensive
Guide" is cool and the number one book I recommend on the proper view of
Genesis is mentioned (p. 559). Coming to Grips with Genesis (Mortenson
& Ury):
https://answersingenesis.org/store/product/coming-grips-genesis/
Notes:
[1] quoted in Biological
Essentialism by Jay L. Hall (True Truth Productions, Big Spring, TX, 2021),
pp. 101,102.
[2] Ibid., p. 35.
note: True Truth Productions is now in OKC.
Maths Challenges Evo+Darwin >>
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