{"id":325,"date":"2017-09-01T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2017-09-08T08:47:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T12:47:42","slug":"opposing-naturalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/01\/opposing-naturalism\/","title":{"rendered":"In Opposing Naturalism in Science, the Bible is More Foundational than Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a link to a guest post that I wrote: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/veritasdomain.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/23\/guest-post-in-opposing-naturalism-in-science-the-bible-is-more-foundational-than-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/veritasdomain.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/23\/guest-post-in-opposing-naturalism-in-science-the-bible-is-more-foundational-than-design\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I contrast this graph from Paul Nelson of the Discovery Institute (see <a href=\"https:\/\/evolutionnews.org\/2017\/02\/new_film_is_gen\/\">here<\/a>), which marginalizes the issue of what the Bible says about the age of the earth:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Nelson-graph.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-326\" src=\"http:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Nelson-graph.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Nelson-graph.png 490w, https:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Nelson-graph-300x236.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>. . . with mine, based on these questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are the Metaphysical Beliefs Consistent with Design in Nature?<\/li>\n<li>Do the Metaphysical Beliefs Entail Rejection of a Naturalistic Epistemology?<\/li>\n<li>Do the Metaphysical Beliefs Require Divine Revelation?<\/li>\n<li>Are the Metaphysical Beliefs Consistent with Absolutely Authoritative Revelation about Creation?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Absolute-Bible-graph.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-330\" src=\"http:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Absolute-Bible-graph.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"738\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Absolute-Bible-graph.png 738w, https:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Absolute-Bible-graph-300x108.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a link to a guest post that I wrote: \u00a0https:\/\/veritasdomain.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/23\/guest-post-in-opposing-naturalism-in-science-the-bible-is-more-foundational-than-design\/ I contrast this graph from Paul Nelson of the Discovery Institute (see here), which marginalizes the issue of what the Bible says about the age of the earth: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/01\/opposing-naturalism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}