AI TRANSCRIPT of ABOVE:
"That is enough of comparing Van Till's credibility with that of the universal credibility of the world's greatest scientists. That comparison is really not important except that the CRC's Trustees wish to commend Van Till to the world; Van Till, a would-be scientist who says something is true just because he says I say it is. For that, today's top physical scientists would laugh him out of the room. But that is not really important.
VERSUS GOD HIMSELF
What is important is this: comparing Van Till's credibility with God's credibility. That is the comparison that Van Till himself raised. I, Van Till have a book that says God's Creation (Genesis) is not credible; that it is just a "story"; false history. Then God will trot out His book The Bible which says I God did create as I said I did. It's foolish even to ask the question: Who has credibility? God or Van Till? In truth, anyone who is a Christian must humbly accept God's revealed truth without a question. To go way beyond a question into a flat denial of God's Word is blasphemous.
The present Creation crisis in the CRC centers on whether The Bible's account of Creation is historically TRUE or FALSE. Van Till claims it is FALSE. He presents two bits of evidence on which he hangs his entire "proof," and then (three) he indulges in a scientifically-arrogant approach/tactic that is totally inexcusable when engaging in any kind of research in either the physical or metaphysical orders: making flat-out assertions without any credible/supporting evidence, which in summary conclude that:
God could not/would not create light (1st day) without lights (4th day: solar system).
a. God could not.
When Van Till takes this position he is essentially saying: I am telling God that he does not have the kind of creative authority and/or power over the physical universe to produce singular (big bang) events like The Bible's 24-hour six-day Creation. Van Till is quite a god to tell God what He can or cannot do.
Furthermore, the scientists Newton-Einstein-Hawking say God could easily perform The Bible's big bang within the known laws (including the principle of uncertainty) governing our physical universe. Newton's gravity plus Einstein's relativity lead them to posit a state of infinite energy-density-heat-light at the time of the big bang bringing Hawking to this conclusion: "At the big bang and other (biblical) singularities, all the humanly-visible operating laws would have broken down, so God would still have had complete freedom to choose what happened and how the universe began." Hawking's evidence leads to his conclusion that God could have compressed His six-days of Creation into less than a split second if that had served His purpose. The theory of "Infinite
VAN TILL'S DOCTRINE
Van Till's theology reveals the HERESY of it all. He says "All phenomena occur for the goal of redemption and did God had one goal: the glory of man. In that theological grammar, God is the object that is served and man becomes the master over the servant God for the sole purpose of redeeming man," which is absolutely wrong: he is sure of being right, even if he is doing permanent wrong Van Till is so anxious to throw out the Creation account he calls God a liar. All glory is precisely the opposite: essentially the beginning and end of what makes God. Creation for the glory of God gives an authoritative book. Man for the redemption. This is the tragic flaw. He swallowed this doctrine hook, line, and sinker, then force-fed it to the CRC man down the gullet of the unsuspecting church. Its stomach the CRC has rebelled against the slick salesmanship of Van Till.
All this, as all you CRC people know, is against The Bible's own theology and against the confessions.
THE BIBLE'S DOCTRINE
In sharp contrast to Van Till's Heresy, in essence, the beginning and end, we find in the closing Words of the Book: "I am Master/God: For thine is the power, forever, Amen." In that theology God is the subject. God is the object served (man is the servant). God has all authority, and man is the servant. As Master, God is capable of doing what He wishes. All glory is inherently present in God, and essentially is the beginning and end of what makes God. God for His own glory gives an authoritative book in order to redeem himself, redeem man, or not to redeem man.
