Dr. Stephen Meyer
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
is representative and it's accurate.
There's a poetic structure in Genesis.
The things that are created on day one are ruled by the things that are created on day four, day two, day five, day three, day six.
There's all kinds of things going on in the Genesis account.
It's very, very rich.
It's full of insight about human nature.
It's full of insight about metaphysics.
In particular, it's the only ancient account in the world
that suggests that the universe is not eternal and self-existent, but it's dependent on an external creator, which I think has more and more and more credibility as we learn things cosmologically.
So I think it's an amazing, amazing passage, but I don't think it teaches a young earth.
Yeah, that makes no sense.
I'm definitely not the same strength as you guys.
I've been working out, but I've got a ways to go.
No, this is Tom Holland's point.
The British historian has written the book Dominion, and he's been in the news.
He was for a long time calling himself a Christian atheist because he discovered the importance of Christianity to the West, to our culture, to our civilization.
He said, we're swimming in Christian waters, and we don't know it.
Yeah.
Where do we get this idea of human rights?
He said, apart from the biblical idea of being made in God's image, this is an utterly exotic concept.