Yes, in fact I own a copy of Ramm’s book The Christian View of Science and Scripture.  That book did so much to boost my faith.  The main thing that kept me from the gospel was that science and the Bible just don’t agree. And we can see the results of science in everyday life.  So who is right? Enter Bernie Ramm.  Wow!  When I was in Ethiopia at Durami somebody gave me a copy of Morris and Whitcomb’s Creation Science.  I devoured it but there was so much in the book that just didn’t set well with me so I asked a professional geologist about it.  He happened to be on our compound looking for a year-round source of water.  I was very impressed with the methods he used (eventually he found a spring half way up the mountain, designed a dam and pipe system to get the water onto the compound).  I’ll never forget his reaction when I asked him about it.  He took me aside and told me to throw that book away.  Then he cited example after example from the mountains and formations in Ethiopia.  By now I’ve forgotten those examples except for folded rocks.  It takes time and pressure to fold rock strata.  Otherwise they break.  But watch out Steve, most evangelicals swallow Creation Science hook, line and sinker.  The most recent example is when I was showing a fellow missionary the Andromeda Galaxy (2.5 million light years away – the furthest object visible with the naked eye).  I expounded how we were actually looking 2.5 million years into the past since that’s how long it took the light to get here.  He dryly answered, but the universe is only 10,000 years old ( in his tone I read – what are you an unbeliever or something, read your Bible).

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