The Decline of Faith

[RPittman]…Conversely, it further confirmed my own belief in the emptiness of evolutionary arguments. Yet, it was exactly such vain arguments that led such respected theologians as Bruce Walkte and others to question the intellectual foundations of creationism. Duh? Is there intelligent life on earth? :~

I just finished Ken Ham’s book Already Gone with its unabashed push for a more vigorous apologetics foundation to battle the influx of secularism into this new generation. All that is well and good.

What is being neglected in all this, and what your observation illustrates, is that the primary reason that one moves from a completely rational, reasonable, logical belief position to a completely illogical, irrational, even delusional belief such as you observed with Walkte (according to his own stated reasoning for departure) is that there is something so desired in that irrational belief system that a person will move to that belief in order to fulfill that desire. Likely as not, that desire will rarely, if ever, be stated as reason for their departure.

No amount of apologetics will ever overcome that. Waltke moved from sound theology to his new position because he wanted something that position offered, and not because of convincing arguments unanswered or unanswerable from a creationist (Biblical) viewpoint.