Audio Quotes
From Creation History Wiki
Audio clips of professing Christians who do not hold to one or more of the following beliefs:
- the days of creation were six twenty-four-hour periods
- a historical Adam and Eve
- a global flood
- a recent creation
Carson, D.A.
Biography. Research Professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois
- Q & A with D.A. Carson. TheGospelCoalition.org. Beginning at 44:00.
In this interview, Carson is asked about how to handle organizations that promote the idea that the earth was created millions of years ago. He skirts the issue and claims that scientists need far less evangelizing than students of the arts and soft sciences, on the basis that the latter group is much more susceptible to the influence of post-modernism.
- The God Who Made Everything (mp3 file). TheGospelCoalition.org. Beginning at 11:21 and 13:09.
Carson claims during a presentation on his book The God Who Is There that there is "much ambiguity" in the interpretation of Genesis 1. At 13:09, Carson asserts that Genesis 1 is a "mixed genre" and that some of the text "feels like history" but is full of symbolism. He says that it is hard to tell the difference between the two.
Irons, Lee
Biography. Ph.D. candidate, Fuller Theological Seminary; M.Div., Westminster Seminary California; former Orthodox Presbyterian Church minister (ordination was revoked by the OPC following a series of charges concerning Irons's teachings on homosexuality, the Decalogue, and civil government)
- Creation, Part 1 (Gen. 1). Upper-Register.com. Beginning at 18:34.
Irons explains that he does not believe days in Genesis 1 are literal days and gives his reasoning. (The above link does not provide a time indicator. To download this file as an mp3, go to Upper-Register.com and locate the media file named "04 Creation, Part 1 (Gen. 1).")
Keller, Tim
Biography. Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, New York; attended Westminster Theological Seminary
- Q&A: How do Genesis 1 and 2 relate? Tim Keller (Audio Only). Youtube.com. Beginning at 4:00.
Keller lays out an argument for why Genesis 1 cannot be literal. Keller claims that Genesis 1 is a poem, and he goes on to say that taking it literally undermines the authority of the Bible.
