{"id":62391,"date":"2016-11-19T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=62391"},"modified":"2016-11-08T12:34:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T19:34:51","slug":"creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/19\/creation\/","title":{"rendered":"Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/2oZK1nJJg5E\/maxresdefault.jpg\" \/>I am currently in the middle of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/trenthorn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trent Horn<\/a>&#8216;s latest book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hard-Sayings-Catholic-Answering-Difficulties\/dp\/1941663745\" target=\"_blank\">Hard Sayings<\/a>. In his book, he spends some time discussing the objections raised by critics of the Bible as they interpret Genesis&#8217; account of creation. Just as I was finishing this section of the book, my friend Len\u00a0shared the following video his Facebook wall:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2oZK1nJJg5E?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This video is a 2015 episode of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thedove.us\/shows\/focustoday\" target=\"_blank\">FocusToday<\/a>, an interview programme which is part of a Christian apostolate. In this particular episode, Jimmy Akin, apologist at Catholic Answers,\u00a0is interviewed concerning the Catholic interpretation of the first few chapters of the Book of Genesis. As usual, Jimmy discusses the issue\u00a0in a clear and measured way.<\/p>\n<p>At around the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2oZK1nJJg5E?t=1682\" target=\"_blank\">twenty-eight minute mark<\/a>, the interviewer and Jimmy are joined by <strong>John Mittendorf<\/strong> who is associated with the ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/answersingenesis.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Answers In Genesis<\/a>.\u00a0 He takes about ten minutes to respond to Jimmy&#8217;s position, after which Jimmy has an opportunity to <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2oZK1nJJg5E?t=2339\" target=\"_blank\">respond<\/a>,\u00a0marked as always with his characteristic gentleness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently in the middle of\u00a0Trent Horn&#8216;s latest book,\u00a0Hard Sayings. In his book, he spends some time discussing the objections raised by critics of the Bible as they interpret Genesis&#8217; account of creation. Just as I was finishing this section of the book, my friend Len\u00a0shared the following video his Facebook wall: This video is a 2015 episode of\u00a0FocusToday,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,17],"tags":[538,1232,85,3886,1922],"class_list":["post-62391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-faith","tag-creation","tag-genesis","tag-jimmy-akin","tag-john-mittendorf","tag-trent-horn"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62522,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62391\/revisions\/62522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}