Rex Kerr

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Sep 29	answered	When was Abraham alive?
Sep 28	comment	Universe made of water? @Paul - In practice, it seems less customary on this site than other SE sites. I'm not sure why. But I do see a lot of commentless downvoting.
Sep 28	comment	Should a Christian read books known to be heretical / blasphemous / against Christianity? There is wisdom in this answer in general and I would like to upvote it, but relying upon something Darwin said instead of trying to understand what is true is closer to deceit than wisdom. The Origin of Species is not infallible, so the honest question is not what Darwin said to look for but what are the logical consequences of evolution. Even though the example is problematic, the point about not going blindly is a good one.
Sep 26	awarded	Nice Question
Sep 25	asked	By what mechanism could the Bible be inerrant?
Sep 23	comment	If the Bible is open to interpretation, how does one know which one is right? This question is just begging for a Catholic apologetics answer.
Sep 23	comment	Is there any correlation between national prosperity and percentage of Christians? No support for the claim about needing to calculate the right kind of prosperity. If you mean only that there are more Christians where Christianity is common, this is tautological (and the St. Lawrence story, while interesting, is a side-tangent), and doesn't answer the question.
Sep 22	answered	Is there any correlation between national prosperity and percentage of Christians?
Sep 20	answered	Christian response(s) to disaster survival, or Christian self-defense
Sep 20	comment	How do young earth creationists reconcile the age of the universe with the speed of light, and visible distant objects? @jimreed - Agreed; hopefully aceinthehole will accept as correct an answer that conveys the essence of the (most common) YEC position, even if ace finds that view of God personally uncomfortable. If your answer, for example, is widely believed, is there some way you can reference this fact?
Sep 20	comment	How do young earth creationists reconcile the age of the universe with the speed of light, and visible distant objects? I didn't downvote you, I just thought that wobbling stars was a particularly odd claim. Anyway, even if everything you said was completely absurd, if it was plausible that this was how young earth creationists thought, I wouldn't downvote, since it is answering the question. (I might point out the flaws in the logic. For example, if stars started out nearby, they'd have to be dim (or few) or they'd outshine the sun.)
Sep 20	comment	How do young earth creationists reconcile the age of the universe with the speed of light, and visible distant objects? Do you mean that some stars wiggle back and forth as the earth orbits around the sun? Doesn't that strike you as weird? Also, doesn't red shift exactly measure how fast the stars are moving away?
Sep 20	comment	Is it possible for an atheist to be moral? @Peter Turner - I'm aware of who the Samaritans were; the point of my quoting the parable is that it was because they were neighbors that the Samaritan was the compassionate one, and given who the others were, it seemed apparent that it was personal familiarity, not any particular religious belief, that motivated the kind actions. Therefore, there seems no reason to believe that atheists would do differently. And of course the stats are stats and provide only a very coarse picture; there are very many Christians who are deeply moral (and very many non-Christians who are also).
Sep 19	awarded	Talkative
Sep 19	revised	Is it possible for an atheist to be moral? added 131 characters in body
Sep 19	answered	Is it possible for an atheist to be moral?
Sep 19	comment	Why did people live so long before the Flood? @Cryst - Where did you hear that? That's absolutely not a consensus scientific view (and Andrew Grimm's overly nice commentary on this is, well, overly nice). There's no evidence for an increase in deleterious alleles over time. Mutations keep occurring, of course, but mutations also result in lower fitness (i.e. people who carry them have fewer children on average), so everything balances out (with a stable population). Only in the last couple hundred years has there been a dramatic enough population expansion (and increase in medical technology) to admit an increase in deleterious alleles.
Sep 17	revised	Just how accurate is the Bible? added 309 characters in body
Sep 17	answered	Just how accurate is the Bible?
Sep 16	comment	How do young earth creationists reconcile the age of the universe with the speed of light, and visible distant objects? Changing the speed of light is a big deal. For example, light is a wave, so it is the case that wavelengthfrequency = c, regardless of what c is. But the energy stored in light is given by E = hfrequency = hc/wavelength. If c goes way, way up, energy does also, and everything blows to bits. Or, if wavelength goes way, way down to compensate, light is now too small to interact with matter. If you change Planck's constant h, you have a new set of nonsensical physical results. Changing the speed of light while retaining a familiar environment means that physics was radically different*.