User:EriK

I agree utterly with the Statements of Faith found at these two links:

Got Questions Answers in Genesis

I am a Young-Earth Creationist, meaning I take the default ~6,015-year-old Earth view unless I can be shown that there's compelling evidence for inserting a few hundred or thousand years between Noah and Abraham. If it's not necessary to insert gaps, then it's not justifiable. :)

I think the main source of water for the Flood would be from the "fountains of the deep." There may or may not have been a vapor canopy--regarding Russel Humphrey's water-transmuting cosmology, the separation of the waters from the waters might actually refer to the separation of the earth proper from the rest of the universe, assuming the whole thing was filled with water in the beginning to be used as the raw material for creation. I agree with AiG et al that the reason for prolonged lifespans may very well simply have been due to superior genetics--especially convincing, given the natural-logarithmic decay curve seen in the ages of the post-Flood patriarchs.

Like any educated Creationist, I accept natural selection and view this as a powerful tool for explaining the rapid diversification and dissemination of animal kinds from the Ararat/Urartu area after Noah released all the animals from off the Ark.

I believe strongly that any view of God or anything theological that cannot be backed up by Holy Scripture (the 66 books in the Canon) is unBiblical (by definition), and therefore unreliable. Not necessarily wrong. However, if something contradicts, or appears to contradict Scripture, then it or the interpretation thereof must be wrong. This means that any sect that calls itself Christian, which imposes extra-Biblical ideas onto God's Word is committing heresy. Mormons, Catholics, Harold-Camping-ites, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc--the official positions of these groups are false. This doesn't mean that everyone who thinks they belong to these groups are damned, however--it was an important lesson for me to learn, while I was researching Creation, that people often don't actually believe what they say they believe. So there is hope for many Catholics...the less Catholic they are, the more hope. And so on.

Do you think the paragraphs above were a bit rough? Watch this sermon.

I encourage you to chalk up my talk page as much as you want, but don't you dare try to edit something I said ;]

I've Created

 * Bill Maher
 * Transcendental argument
 * RationalWiki
 * RationalWiki Atheism FAQ for the Newly Deconverted
 * Quote mining
 * Ancestry
 * Sola Scriptura
 * Hedonism

I've Significantly Edited

 * Harold Camping
 * Exorcism
 * Evolution encourages promiscuity and lust (Talk.Origins)
 * Table of Nations