Reason for Believers (RTB) is a progressive creationist group that promotes the old forms of Earth's creation days. It was founded in 1986 by Hugh Ross, a Canadian-born astrophysicist and Christian creationist apologetic. The scientific community and skeptics have denied many of the claims made by RTB.
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Based in Los Angeles, the RTB mission is to show that "strong reasons and scientific research - including recent discoveries - consistently support, rather than erode, belief in biblical truth and faith in a personal and transcendent God, are revealed in Scripture and nature. "
The reason for Believe has 26 books published by publisher of Baker Publishing Christian book. They also wrote 1564 articles on this topic. RTB has held events around the world. They also produce many DVDs, TV shows, audio CDs, MP3s, podcasts, streaming media events and teleconferences. "Science News Flash" they reviewed the headlines of scientific discovery. The RTB education program includes credit and non-credit classes.
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RTB claims to have a scientific model that predicts an increase in astronomical evidence that the Earth is in an ideal location in the cosmos to accommodate civilization and advanced technology and make the universe observable. The nontheistic model predicts that astronomical discoveries will show that the Earth is indistinguishable both for eligibility and observation.
The RTB model also predicts that as scientists continue to examine the causes and effects of tectonic plates, their findings will reveal evidence for the fine-tuning required for long-term stable tectonic activity on plates with thin atmospheres.
The RTB model predicts that future anthropological and genetic studies will further affirm that humans are biologically different than descendants of hominid species. It predicts strong evidence for the genetic uniqueness, anatomy, and human behavior. This puts the earliest hominids at 6.5 million years ago and the first humans some fifty thousand years ago.
RTB also predicts that Noah's flood is a local event. There is some evidence for the great floods in modern Iraq around 2900 BC.
Criticism
The scientific model helps researchers organize information into conceptual structures for understanding and interpreting data, asking good questions, and identifying anomalies. Notable scientific models include Einstein's theory of relativity and the theory of neo-Darwinian evolution. The RTB-testable creation model fails to meet modern qualifications for scientific theory or models and sees only what is known and claims it as a prediction.
In a review of the recent issue of Ross and Fazale Rana, Ross and Fazale Rana, the research psychologist Brian Bolton argued against the scientific status of the RTB model. Bolton saw the violation of scientific logic in the form of immunity against counterfeiting, supernatural causal assumptions, lack of independent evaluation of evidence, circular reasoning, and false correspondence of biblical creation (based on religion) and human evolution (based on evidence)) as scientific explanations.
The RTB claim that all humans today are descended from a specially created couple that lived about 50,000 years ago and that no common ancestry between humans and other primates is debated in a scientific essay by evangelist geneticist Dennis Venema. There is strong genetic and fossil evidence that shows ancient human ancestors as well. There are also reasonable arguments against intelligent design in general.
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External links
http://reasons.org/
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