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0170 Chapter 17 discusses recent scientific corroboration for Ross’s correspondences for days four (and three) of the Creation Story.  This chapter is signature for Hugh Ross and the Reasons To Believe Team<\/em>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here I am concerned about day four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0171 I proceed by walking though several lessons that come out of this examination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0172 Ross employs a variation of the Positivist’s judgment.  He subscribes to the rule of the positivist intellect that metaphysics must not be allowed in scientific descriptions.  Ross is a scientist.  In this respect, he might be placed in the exalting nature3c<\/sub> camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ross does not subscribe to the proposition that the all plain-speaking explanations must be couched in a scientific disciplinary language.  The reason is simple.  Ross is Christian.  So, scientific explanations cannot account for every thing, especially when that “thing” is purely relational, such as Ross’s belief that Jesus is the Messiah.  Ross intuitively senses that nature is a sign of God<\/em>.  So, modern gossips (who call themselves “thought leaders”) place Ross in the exalting grace3c<\/sub> camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0173 Here is a picture of Ross’s aesthetic judgment<\/em> for this application of day four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0174 Relation<\/em> (thirdness) brings what ought to be<\/em> (secondness) into relation with what is<\/em> (firstness).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the Positivist’s judgment, a positivist intellect (relation,<\/em> thirdness) brings the empirio-schematic judgment (what ought to be,<\/em> secondness) into relation with the dyad, a noumenon [cannot be objectified as] its phenomena (what is,<\/em>firstness).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Ross’s aesthetic judgment, an aesthetic intellect (relation,<\/em> thirdness) brings artistic concordism as an empirio-schematic judgment (what ought to be,<\/em> secondness, see point 0121) into relation with the dyad of Genesis day four and the period of Earth’s history dating from around 2000 to 540 million years ago<\/em> [cannot be objectified by] perceived correspondences<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0175 Let me take a closer look at that what is<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0176 The noumenon is a dyad<\/em> consisting of a day:age pairing<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0177 The day is four.  The Genesis text says (more or less<\/em>), “And God said, ‘Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens (for various reasons)’. And it was so. God made the sun, moon and stars and set them in the firmament (for more reasons).  God declares day four good.  That is it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeah, that is a mess of a synopsis of sacred text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0178 The corresponding epoch is (more or less<\/em>) a chemical transformation of the Earth’s atmosphere due to the exposure of continental rock and the production of oxygen by photosynthesis.  Continental rock is exposed by 2,500Myr (millions of years ago).  The weathering of continental rock influences the composition of the atmosphere.  Photosynthetic life is at least as old as continental rock.  Oxygen gas is a byproduct of photosynthesis.  As oxygen builds up in the atmosphere, the types of life described in day 5 flourish as microscopic creatures, then macroscopic creatures until the so-called “Cambrian Explosion”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeah, that is a mess of a synopsis of chapter 17 of Ross’s book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0179 The good Book and Ross’s chapter are much more evocative and prescient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My aim is only to establish the plausibility that there are correspondences<\/em> and those correspondences<\/em> may be regarded as phenomena<\/em> that the empirio-schematic judgment of artistic concordism<\/em> can observe and weigh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0180 Here is a picture of the empirio-schematic judgment of artistic concordism<\/em> unfolded into a category-based nested form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0181 To me, this line of thinking<\/em> corresponds to the Greek style of argument<\/em>.  The task is to identify the best icons, indexes and symbols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The actuality2<\/sub> in the above figure<\/em> is the model that Ross is aiming to articulate,<\/em> but cannot, because he is unfamiliar with the disciplinary language of semiotics3<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suppose that I may label Ross’s normal context3<\/sub> and actuality2<\/sub> as “intuitive” and “Gestalt-like”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following to the Greek style of argument, I say, “Ross’s model<\/em> is not as cogent as Peirce’s sign typology,<\/em> although he does offer a method<\/em> in chapter 20.  And, methods are not so different from models.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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