March 2, 2019

3/4/2019

"STARLIGHT, TIME AND SPACE TRAVEL

TECHNOLOGY"

Mark Amunrud, B.S. (Mathematics), M.A. (Theology and Worship), M.S. (Industrial and Management Engineering) spoke on the distinction between empty space, and physical space - the medium through which light shines, particles move, and forces propagate. He also entertained the possibility that the density of space, and therefore the speed at which starships and light might pass through it, may be manipulated.

About our speaker: Mark has a B.S. in mathematics, a master’s degree in theology and worship from Western Seminary, and a master’s degree in industrial and management engineering from Montana State University. He has been a Bible College teacher, a software design engineer, and president of a software company. When he sold his software company he retired to become president of Montana Bible College. Mark enjoys researching diverse scientific areas that promote creation and that also advance science and technology. He teaches Genesis at Montana Bible College.

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11/27/2025 08:13:28 pm

Thanks for sharing!!

Danil Pech

11/28/2025 04:10:40 am

Is reading Genesis 1-2 a lot like listening to wordless music? Or, is it more like a born-deaf person reading sheet music? Do these accounts match little-to-nothing of our everyday human sense of Nature? Are they NOT supposed to be thought of like seeing a flower garden? Are they, rather, more like our blindly feeling around inside a box full of strange, unknown items? Are even only the first few or several verses supposed to be assumed to be like a box of such items?

And, what was God's sentiment and manners regarding His agency in the events record in these two accounts? Was He less-or-more stern and command-and-control?

To put this latter pair of questions more exactly to my point, has much of the advocacy for Ordinary Biblical Creation assumes that God's part in authoring these two accounts were of Divine 'testiness'? Has much of that advocacy assumed that at least part of God's reason for authoring these two accounts was to angrily oppose any human attempt to use their own God-given normal 'sense and agency' to make an everyday Nature-grounded sense of accounts?

In other words, does God NOT authorize our attempt to make ANY sense of these accounts beyond what little they say outright? By analogy, consider if I tell you only one thing: “My cow eats grass?” Are you going to AVOID assuming that my cow has eyes, poops, and has four legs?

What characterizes much of the advocacy of the Young Age Biblical Creation reading of Genesis 1-2? Is much of that advocacy characterized by a sense that these accounts are to be studied under a sense of dread? That 'Divine wrath' shall be stored up upon anyone who ever even slightly misunderstands what a given bit of it intends?

Two possible examples of this sternness-centric characterization of God in Genesis 1-2 are Morris and Doyle.

Morris asserts that God had outright 'told' and 'commanded' Adam to invent specific human vocabulary (Morris, Biblical Creationism, Master Books edition 2000, pg. 22, bottom line; pg. 20, second-to-bottom line). And, Doyle assumes that Adam's first becoming an 'active agent' of anything was only 'at God’s behest', specifically 'when God brings the animals to Adam for him to name'; and that Adam's naming these animals was the first time Adam ever spoke. (Doyle, 2019: "Starting from Genesis or geology?", CMI feedback reply, 1/3rd down the webpage). https://creation.com/genesis-and-geology (Feedback archive → Feedback 2019)

What is the sentiment by which Morris and Doyle, respectively, have made these deductions? What are their motives for doing so? Are they afraid that, unless these kinds of deductions are made, that even advocacy of Biblical Young Age Creation itself shall tragically become like a very frail-and-senile person? Are these particular deductions crucial to properly upholding Biblical Young Age Creation?

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