This frames the whole controversy over God lying versus mans recording of scripture. jar seems to always claim that God lied and the serpent told the truth, which in my mind is arguably blasphemous. Many obvious questions arise between Biblical Literalists and scholarly (secular) literalists over this.
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I think you are missing the point. I believe that jar is making use of a strawman argument as a rhetorical tool to make a point.
The point is that IF YEC is correct, then it is necessry for God to be a liar. Jar goes further in saying that if the universe is also the work of God, it disagrees with the Bible, so which do you believe? One of the two must be fallacious.
In effect, YEC belief CAUSES God to be a liar. It is a logical conclusion.
Consequently, it is possible to judge Faith (and other militant adherents to YEC) as blasphemous.
The only way out of this is to deny the evidence provided in the works of God.
Frankly, I don't think jar cares a hoot about whether God is a liar or not. The point is that YECs have some explaining to do.
ABE: On the other hand, I think that the earth may be a bit tricky, but I do not think that it lies.
Edited by edge, : No reason given.