Welcome back to Reasonable Faith with Dr. William Lane Craig and this is part two in a series where we're looking at

Evan Minton's concerns with Dr Craig's views of Dr. John Walton. Bill you've

been addressing this at length in your defenders class,

so we encourage listeners to go to reasonable faith.org

and check out your series on the creation of life

and biological diversity.

And let me quickly say how much we appreciate Evan Minton.

Thank God for young men like him who defend the faith with accuracy and charity

online in debates in their writings and in videos

check out his work at cerebral faith

net

that's cerebral faith

dot net

Evan definitely uses the brains that God gave him.

So here's your next objection bill that Evan lists,

how could things exist for eons without functioning.

Walton's view, you'll remember, is that Genesis 1 does not describe God's bringing into existence these various objects and organisms over the course of the

six-day creation week. Rather, he thinks, it is merely the specification of certain functions for the objects and

organisms that have been there for an indeterminate amount of time that already exist.

And what I argue is that this view of Genesis 1 is enormously

implausible because it would require us to take as literally faults all of the statements about the

primordial darkness, the primival ocean, the emergence of dry land from the ocean, the earth's bringing forth vegetation

...