“And of course, that depends on what God’s Word says. And we need to judge everything we believe against the absolute authority of the Word of God,” Ham added.
“From everything I’ve seen, what Dr. Hugh Ross does is basically accept everything the secular scientists are saying about origins,” Ham said. “He doesn’t believe in evolution per se. He’s a progressive creationist. He believes God created different creatures all along the way over millions of years.”
Referring to Ross’ conversation with Metaxas, Mortenson said of Ross, “He’s not handling the Scriptures well, if at all. He’s mainly just citing scientific claims that nobody in the audience can check, and Eric Metaxas is just gullibly believing is absolutely accurate.”
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“And he uses these ‘scientific arguments’ to argue for a local flood and argue for the date of when the flood happened,” said Mortenson. “And it’s just amazing to watch him deceive his audience.”
“You know, it’s interesting, we live at a time where unfortunately there’s a lot of academic peer pressure and pride, academic pride. And if you disagree with [the earth being] millions of years [old], you’ll be called anti-academic, anti-scientific,” Ham said. “I mean, if you believe in the virgin birth and the resurrection [of Jesus], non-Christians out there, scientists, they might scoff at you a bit or whatever. But if you disagree with the millions of years, they go ballistic.”
Ham added, “And unfortunately, people like Eric Metaxas and Hugh Ross have succumbed to, actually, it’s Genesis 3:1—the temptation that was given to Adam and Eve by the serpent, by the devil: ‘Did God say?’”
“And you know what? Genesis 3:1 and Genesis 3:5 really sum up our sin nature, because that was a temptation: ‘You can become as God. You decide truth for yourself,’” said Ham. “And so [Metaxas and Ross] would rather trust the words of fallible man, who wasn’t there, whose heart is against God, right, who doesn’t have all the evidence, rather than the Word of God, who’s always been there who knows everything.”
“They put man’s word above God’s Word,” Ham said.
“It’s obvious that Eric [Metaxas] does not understand the difference between experimental science and historical science,” said Mortenson. “And he doesn’t understand, obviously, that philosophical, anti-biblical assumptions are controlling historical science and have controlled science, historical science, geology, for 200 years.”
