On the title page of this paper I have called myself a reluctant OEC (old-earth creationist). That self-appellation means two things. First, and most importantly, it means I dont believe that this universe, or this world, or any feature of this world, or any living thing which inhabits this world would be here without the direct action of God: first upon Nothingness, to speak into existence Something; and then, repeatedly, upon that Something to compel it to produce what blind chance and material force would never have produced, would never even have been inclined to produce. Much less importantly, as an OEC, I reluctantly accept the notion that the Power required to propel matter and energy which were bent toward disorganization into the opposite direction of that bent was applied by God over a very long period of time, and involved a combination of miracle and ordinary causation. I therefore do not dispute the assertions of science about chronology, though I strongly suspect that science on the matter of chronology knows a lot less than it pretends.
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Ruminations of a Reluctant OEC