Is Genesis History? Page #4

And that's the story here at the Grand Canyon.

Not a bit of water for a long time.

It's a lot of water for a short time.

Time is really the central problem ...

... when we talk about the history of Earth.

How long did form what we see around us?

To me it seemed clear that the global Flood would ...

... transformed the Earth quickly,

and yet I know that many people think ...

... that the world is slowly formed over thousands of millions of years.

What was the real difference between these two ways of seeing the time?

I needed to talk to someone who could tell me ...

... more about science and history and time.

Since my background is in computer science,

we are in a place where I ...

... he had personally experienced something in this story.

As we watched the exhibition,

I was reminded of how small ...

... and that they have become powerful computers ...

... since I used them for the first time.

Paul said that changing our assumptions about computers ...

... really it was a series of paradigm shifts.

When I was 19 I read Thomas Kuhn's classic,

"The Structure of Scientific Revolutions",

He is describing the notion of paradigms.

A paradigm is a framework in which you interpret the evidence.

So science not only is the evidence;

This is how you interpret the evidence.

So, this room for example,

we have here called "minicomputers"

but really they are not mini at all ...

... in terms of our current paradigm.

Today, right?

Yes this.

So to really understand this question of origins ...

... you really need to start watching ...

... the ruling paradigms,

both views we have now main ...

... about the history of the life and history of the Universe.

And which are they?

On the one hand, we have the conventional paradigm.

In the conventional paradigm you have a profound time,

13.7 billion years together with this gradual ...

... starting with the primitive simplicity ...

... and ending with what we see today.

All the complexity of life has to be built from below ...

... for purely physical processes where no mind,

no creator, no design is present.

The second point of view we can call, say,

the paradigm of historical Genesis.

Everything starts with a divine mind, a creator,

an intelligence that plans and directs ...

... and it brings reality into existence.

Events are happening at a much more recent time scale.

The universe, the solar system, our planet, life itself,

all starts fully formed as a functional system.

It is not difficult to see that there is a radical difference ...

... between these two in terms of time.

When we see the history of life ...

... on this planet, we have a body of data ...

... but depending on the paradigm one adopts,

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