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Cecil Allen

Born: 22 Oct 1950

Freethinker

A Christian skeptic

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Long time student of Bible Prophecy

I've been involved in the Creationism/Evolutionism debate, especially on-line, since mid-1980s. Science can only be done, interpreted and understood within some philosophy that provides the metaphysical assumptions required in order to do science at all. The reason why it appears that religion and science conflict is becuase most science in intepreted within the philosophical religion of Naturalism (both Ontological and Methodological. There is no functional difference between Ontological and Methodoloigcal Natualism.) The Bible provides the metaphysical assumptions required for science to be done. Thus all science can be done, interpreted and understood within the Biblical paradigm. I believe that the Bible is quiet clear that God created the universe some time before the Creation Week; That all life forms were created some 6000 years ago during the creation week; And that there was a global cataclysm. Both the creation and the Flood are established fact within which science is done. They are not hypotheses to be falsified by the scientific method.

I am currently an elderly undergrad at a local university working toward a major in Earth Sciences w/emphasis in Paleontology. (B average).

I have an AA degree in Civil Engineering Technology. I worked for 5 years in a state department of transportation construction engineering office inspecting Freeway roadway and bridge construction.

I have been a Seventh-day Adventist Christian since 1963. I do not believe in religion, tradition and/or rituals. True religion is having a personal love relationship with God. I am saved by faith in Jesus through His grace not by works. Obedience to his law of love relationships does not earn salvation. Obedience is appealing and desirable only because of the love for Jesus that follows salvation. Disobedience of God's love law is attempted salvation by works.

I turned 44 on the 150 anniversary of the Great Disappointment in 1844.