Summary of the AiG Statement of Faith

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(A) PRIORITIES

The scientific aspects of creation are important, but are secondary in importance to the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The doctrines of Creator and Creation cannot ultimately be divorced from the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

(B) BASICS

The 66 books of the Bible are the written Word of God. The Bible is divinely inspired and inerrant throughout. Its assertions are factually true in all the original autographs. It is the supreme authority in everything it teaches.

The final guide to the interpretation of Scripture is Scripture itself.

The account of origins presented in Genesis is a simple but factual presentation of actual events and therefore provides a reliable framework for scientific research into the question of the origin and history of life, mankind, the Earth and the universe.

The various original life forms (kinds), including mankind, were made by direct creative acts of God. The living descendants of any of the original kinds (apart from man) may represent more than one species today, reflecting the genetic potential within the original kind. Only limited biological changes (including mutational deterioration) have occurred naturally within each kind since Creation.

The great Flood of Genesis was an actual historic event, worldwide (global) in its extent and effect.

The special creation of Adam (the first man) and Eve (the first woman), and their subsequent fall into sin, is the basis for the necessity of salvation for mankind.

Death (both physical and spiritual) and bloodshed entered into this world subsequent to and as a direct consequence of man’s sin.

(C) THEOLOGY

The Godhead is triune: one God, three Persons—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

All mankind are sinners, inherently from Adam and individually (by choice) and are therefore subject to God’s wrath and condemnation.

Freedom from the penalty and power of sin is available to man only through the sacrificial death and shed blood of Jesus Christ, and His complete and bodily Resurrection from the dead.

The Holy Spirit enables the sinner to repent and believe in Jesus Christ.

The Holy Spirit lives and works in each believer to produce the fruits of righteousness.

Salvation is a gift received by faith alone in Christ alone and expressed in the individual’s repentance, recognition of the death of Christ as full payment for sin, and acceptance of the risen Christ as Saviour, Lord and God.

All things necessary for our salvation are either expressly set down in Scripture or may be deduced by good and necessary consequence from Scripture.

Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.

Jesus Christ rose bodily from the dead, ascended to Heaven, and is currently seated at the right hand of God the Father, and shall return in person to this Earth as Judge of the living and the dead.

Satan is the personal spiritual adversary of both God and man.

Those who do not believe in Christ are subject to everlasting conscious punishment, but believers enjoy eternal life with God.

The only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one woman. God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of marriage.

(D) GENERAL

Scripture teaches a recent origin for man and the whole creation.

The days in Genesis do not correspond to geologic ages, but are six [6] consecutive twenty-four [24] hour days of Creation.

The Noachian Flood was a significant geological event and much (but not all) fossiliferous sediment originated at that time.

The ‘gap’ theory has no basis in Scripture.

The view, commonly used to evade the implications or the authority of Biblical teaching, that knowledge and/or truth may be divided into ‘secular’ and ‘religious,’ is rejected. (emphasis mine; this is simply Taliban equivalent shit)

No apparent, perceived or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record.

(Right. What an unmitigated utter load of crap. All of it.)

Hastie & Dawes have a chapter in their book "Rational Choice in an Uncertain World" with the heading "Two Cheers for Uncertainty." The point therein being that perfect, comprehensive certainty would make this corporeal life essentially meaningless. Think about it.

Science is always at a problematic forensic disadvantage with respect to refuting morons like these Christiabanists because the latter admit to no uncertainty, e.g. from the AiG "Statement of Faith" -

(D)(6) "No apparent, perceived or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record."

Fundamental to science, however, is a recognition of intractable uncertainty, and consequent proper humility in the expression of findings.

My advice to all of these cartoon-intellect crybaby dramatist clowns: Look, since you already know it all, and since this world sucks so bad in light of its persistent, irritating, ghastly cohorts of queers, questioners, and assorted secularists, DRINK THE GODDAMN KOOL-AID EN MASSE AND MOVE ON TO PARADISE! Belly up, I'm buyin'.

You already know how great it's gonna be. Why wait around in this epistemological cesspool? Go to Poppa. The rest of us have work to do.

That's one central thing separating the Islamic Fundies from our whiny, tiresome Christiabanists; the former continue to demonstrate the courage of their equally bizarre convictions daily, boom, splat.

Like he has always done, Bush is simply angling to foist this mess off on others down the road. Dump this shit in Hillary's or whomever's lap: his successor is to become the one who "lost Iraq," negating his Noble Effort.

He can then move on to do for MLB what's he's done for the nation.