I stumbled upon this youtube video tonight and was a little disturbed with it. Of course I'm used to the general condescension that secular scientists have towards creationists and the gentleman in this video was just about oozing with it. What bothered me was the response that Dr. Lisle gave. The scientist visitor was trying to ask Dr. Lisle for a response as to how he could believe creationism in the face of contrary evidence and it almost seemed like he (Lisle) avoided engaging him in that and simply went straight to the Bible. His answer was basically that even if the evidence contradicts the Bible, we should believe it anyways and that's that.....
Now don't get me wrong. I do agree with Dr. Lisle that God's Word is the final authority. And that in the face of controverting evidence we must remember that our finite human minds can interpret it wrong or come to wrong assumptions based on our limited understanding at the time. To be fair, Dr. Lisle made this point in the video.
What bothers me though is that there is plenty of evidence to the contrary of evolution and he could have so easily said to this man, "Look, you have interpretted the evidence to mean this but, it also seems to rather point to this." He could have so easily said, "Yes, God's Word is our final authority but, we are also fortunate in that proper science has produced evidence to what we believe." There are scientists who have become creationists based on an honest look at the evidence; so why would it have been so hard to at least directly answer the man's question? I think it was a valid one.
It could very well be that Dr. Lisle did indeed answer his question more thoroughly and that the video was edited in such a way to cut that out, making him appear to not really answer the questions directly.
Just kind of frustrated with the video but oh well!