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:My view is the same as Greg Neyman - universal flood but local in nature. However, I didn't come to the site to promote science - I came to promote a Christian worldview and political conservatism. I feel demonized, by being accused of promoting atheism and rejecting God (as evidenced by the last comment of Phillip's reply to me - that's really what it says.) I don't wish to make anybody believe the same I do about origins - I simply want to be accepted as a Christian with a different view on the issue, just as one with multiple denominations. I am going to need some time to reconsider my role on this project. [[User:DanH|DanH]] 12:34, 24 November 2007 (EST)
 
:My view is the same as Greg Neyman - universal flood but local in nature. However, I didn't come to the site to promote science - I came to promote a Christian worldview and political conservatism. I feel demonized, by being accused of promoting atheism and rejecting God (as evidenced by the last comment of Phillip's reply to me - that's really what it says.) I don't wish to make anybody believe the same I do about origins - I simply want to be accepted as a Christian with a different view on the issue, just as one with multiple denominations. I am going to need some time to reconsider my role on this project. [[User:DanH|DanH]] 12:34, 24 November 2007 (EST)
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:: Dan, I don't know who Greg Neyman is, and I'm just trying to have an open-minded discussion of this topic with you and others here, which is what the real value in a wiki is.  Maybe we can learn from each.  We're not going to learn anything if discussion ends, that's for sure.
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:: From a purely scientific point of view, if there was no universal flood, then why is there limestone (which requires water and organisms) at every altitude and every part of the world?  Why are there salt-water lakes far inland and at high altitudes all around the world?  From a purely religious point of view, were there descendants of Adam outside of Neyman's theory of a flood?  That would cause doctrinal problems that undermine Jesus' Crucifixion.
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:: As perhaps you'll agree, the promotion of an old earth does erode faith in many people.  From a belief in the old earth comes a denial of Adam and/or the Flood, and eventually denial by many of the purpose of Jesus, and before long many people are ex-Catholics or ex-Christians who don't want to discuss it anymore.  It's sad and entirely avoidable with open-minded discussion.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 12:51, 24 November 2007 (EST)
    
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