re: Impressive support for Intelligent Design

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I just think it's crazy that people think them reading a Bible in English is the divine word of God

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As far as any translation faithfully represents the Greek and Hebrew, it can rightly be considered the divine word of God.

If you would like to argue otherwise, please state your case.

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He is rejecting a literal reading of the same religious text. That is the problem. He's admitted as much.

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I reject reading poetry as literal. I reject reading the wisdom literature as literal. I reject reading parables as literal. What I don't reject is reading history as literal. The writing style of the Scripture dictates how it should be interpreted.

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I hope in terms of my Psalms citation ("The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands."), he'll reconsider, and come around to a God-Science synergy.

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I disagree with your interpretation. Psalm 19 doesn't mean that we need to interpret the Bible according to the wisdom of man. Psalm 19 merely states that creation is evidence of God's glory. It doesn't mean that whatever interpretations man proposes about the natural world is true and that the Bible should either be rejected or re-interpreted according to man's fallible understanding.

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Second, I believe the Bible is the word of God, and since God cannot lie, the Bible must be true, in spite of what fallible men say.

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I'm a Christian but it's undeniable that there are contradictions in the Bible. The widespread dogma of Biblical inerrancy is fairly new.

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I'm not perpetuating ignorance to support a biblical position.

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Of course you are, and in doing so you deny observations of "the work of his hands." In doing so, you're not supporting a Biblical position. You're supporting your own misdrawn position relative to it.

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It wasn't until the last 200 years or so that the winds changed drastically within Christianity in terms of interpreting the Bible about creation.

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Heliocentrism was regarded as heretical until the last 200 years or so. After all, the Bible plainly states "The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved." (Psalm 93:1), "He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved."(Psalm 104:5), "The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved." (1 Chronicles 16:30).

In the Biblical account of the Gibeon affair, Joshua ordered the sun to stand still. Galileo narrowly avoided being burned at the stake by "admitting" that if heliocentrism was accurate, Joshua would have ordered the Earth to stand still, not the sun. So he "recanted" his questions as to geocentrism. The clerics who would have lit Galileo on fire interpreted the Bible EXACTLY as it is written, even if that interpretation was at demonstrable variance with "the work of his hands." It was a mistake then. It is a mistake now.

Issac Newton, who was first a phenom in Biblical scholarship (most folks don't know that), was pushed to science in part d/t his interest in Jeremiah's "fixed laws of heaven and earth." By definition, fixed laws of heaven and earth meant the universe was designed by a rational mind, it could be understood through rational study.

Francis Bacon, another man steeped in Biblical study, viewed science much as I do. It is a tool to fulfill providence and alleviate human suffering. For Bacon, studying nature was a religious duty. It complemented the Bible. "Test all things; hold fast what is good," (1 Thessalonians 5:21) was foundational to his construct of the Scientific Method.

God gives us the ability to observe, and further our understanding of existence and creation. Reliance on that ability is actually critical to Biblical understanding, not contradictory to it.

For you, I'd point out again the Bible addresses the inconsequence of time as a thing with God -- a day is as a thousand years, a thousand years ia as a day. There could be but one witness to creation. That account could be related by but one source. It is a source unconcerned with limits or definitions of time, and then related to man who is time-obsessed d/t mortality.

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Are you a young earther too?

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Yep

The God of the Bible is a big God and Jesus is wonderful.

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Basically every invention you use in your modern life was created by a non christian.

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Dunning-Kruger indeed

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This is a feature, not a bug.

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And yet much scientific dogma arises from being wrong.

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And yet much scientific dogma arises from being wrong.

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Explain what you mean by this.

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Why is it a shite theory in your estimation?

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The non-answers the experts have during debates with other experts. Or, sometimes, the total refusal to acknowledge the facts.

Everybody assumes that when Christians argue against evolution they're being driven by a worldview, and that's probably a safe assumption most of the time. But I've seen enough experts defend evolution that I know that's a two-way street.