Thank you for this well-timed video explanation for soft tissues found in fossils. I was watching a recently-released video by the young Earth organisation, ICR where they’ve latched onto this research as evidence for young Earth ideology creating a massive fallacy to reinforce their belief in young Earth.

Good science, well presented.

@RTB_official

5 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Thank you for sharing this video with us! Dr Ross is wonderful as usual, braking complicated information to a comprehensive and compelling narrative. Without being a scientist, I knew somehow that the New Earth theory is flawed, but Fazale Rana’s explanation of the soft tissue issue was very helpful.

Can't wait!

Awesome!

I'm curious what was happening before Theia and the Proto Earth collided. Were they both orbiting the sun in a particular orbit? How did they come so close to collide?

Does the 'earth plus moon' combined density follow the normal pattern based on distance from host star?

@hughross131

5 ай бұрын

No. It is highly anomalous. Earth should be less dense than Venus, but it is the densest planet in the solar system. If it were not so, advanced life would not be possible o Earth. For details, see Designed to the Core.

Are the abundance of heavy elements on earth necessary for life to thrive on earth ?

@hughross131

5 ай бұрын

Yes. Nearly all the elements in Earth's crust have highly anomalous abundance levels, in each case at a precise level for advanced life and advanced civilization to be possible. For details, see Improbable Planet.

At Minute 47:19, Dr. Ross says, "If it is only being believed by Young Earth Creationists and no one else, that gives you a reason to say..." You may also say, "If it is only being believed by Christians and no one else, that gives you reason to say..." You may be right in what you are saying, but to call out a group as out of touch or out of the mainstream is an argument I often hear about many Christian claims, from the virgin birth to Jesus being God. Have you tried to arrange a debate or discussion with a YEC on this issue? I keep going back and forth between your videos and books and the YEC videos and books. Each time each side makes good points, I find it hard to sort this out. Thank you

@ji8044

5 ай бұрын

You can't refute YEC people with scientific arguments because they don't believe in science itself. If Einstein was still alive, he could stand on a stage for 60 minutes with Ken Ham and at the end YEC people would tell you that Ham won the debate.

@williambillycraig1057

5 ай бұрын

@@ji8044 Well, if you tried to do this in the right spirit, it could help. The main draw for me to Dr. Ross was not his scientific arguments, but his gentile Christ-like spirit in the debates. For this reason, as I see it, debates do help; when done right, they tend to humanize the other side. While I still believe in a Young Earth, Dr. Ross does make sound scientific arguments as well as giving biblical support for his view on the Creation account in Scripoture. Without seeing his debate with YEC, I would not have considered the OEC as a valid way to interpret Genesis.

@ji8044

5 ай бұрын

@@williambillycraig1057 I think Dr. Ross makes a great contribution by showing that Genesis was not written for the purpose of being a Yahweh Diary as it were, with daily entries. It's the story of man's relationship to God, which does not depend on the length of a day. Good conversation with you.

@williambillycraig1057

5 ай бұрын

@@ji8044 Dr. Ross is a great blessing to the Church. I am a youth pastor. When I teach on the Creation, I teach from a YEC perspective. Still, I spend a reasonable amount of time going over Dr. Ross's material, trying to show that while I disagree on the age of the Earth, I stress the fact that I may be wrong and that I find Dr. Ross's model of Creation and how it works within his understanding of Scripture, and that how Dr. Ross views the Creation account is a credible way to view it. I have read all but one of his books, so I believe I can present his work well. Still, being a YEC pastor is challenging in holding the belief that people like Dr. Ross have valid arguments and then presenting them in my lesson. Most people are too entrenched in what they believe to consider the other side. They even see the others as enemies, not considering that while the other side may be wrong, they are sincere in their beliefs, so people like Dr. Ross are very helpful; he hardly ever comes across as a bad-faith actor. There have been a couple of times where he lumped YEC with bad company. While this is rare, it still stings a bit and prevents me from just pointing the youth to his videos. But I stll encourage them to pick up his books, I lend mine out when I think the student does not have the resources to buy them. I have not read in his books where he dismisses YEC believers as kooks. This Sunday, in fact, I am going over the Creation account from a YEC while adding Dr. Rosses' model to give proper balance

@MutsPub

5 ай бұрын

You can't be serious. These debates have been around for many years! Just type Hugh Ross debate

Are there any papers on the proto earth dense atmosphere and oceans? I understand that’s the model but is there any support data?

@hughross131

5 ай бұрын

Planetary formation physics, in the absence of a major collision event, implies a relationship between a rocky planet's mass and distance from its host star and the thickness of the planet's atmosphere and ocean.

Just because a model answers the questions doesn't mean the model is right. I still think we'll never really know how it all started.

Is it possible the earth density it's high because the The moon is significantly less dense?

Does "the spirit was hovering over the waters" imply a water-planet pre Thea collision? How does this relate to the Hadian era of Earth?

@hughross131

5 ай бұрын

possibly, but Earth was a water-planet before and after the collision with Theia. Before Theia it had a very deep ocean. After the merger with Theia it had a shallow but still pervasive ocean.

There ya go…. A beginning An image A separated firmament Now onto …

Has anyone studied the decomposition of fingernail clippings in different environments?

Was the origin of life pre or post Thea collision ?

@fuzrana894

5 ай бұрын

It was post collision. Evidence indicates the OofL was around 3.8 bya. The collision that formed the moon was about 4.25 bya

Also I believe that the Adam & Eve Story is unscientific, I love to listen to these 2 scholars. I am not a specialist but I believe that about 15% of all dinosaurs had feathers.

@ji8044

5 ай бұрын

You are correct. It's not that all dinosaurs turned into birds a popular misconception. It's that the small number of dinosaurs which had feathers survived.

@hughross131

5 ай бұрын

You will find an undated scientific defense of the Bible's account of Adam and Eve in Rescuing Inerrancy: A Scientific Defense.

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