Darwin fishing and other stabs at biblical inerrency

Interesting article on the new "Darwin Fish" at Christianity today:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/march/37.74.html

Here are my thoughts:

Our ability to examine and deduce fact from the world around us is an amazing gift from God to all of humanity. However it is repeatedly made evident to me upon any new scientific discovery that the standard for truth in science is merely an ideal, something always just out of our reach. Since we view creation as a part of creation, we cannot assume to be able to find any truth except for what is relative to what little we already know.

How often do we marvel at a discovery that "changes everything we know about --(fill in the blank)--". In contrast to this is our God, who was and is and always will be, never changing. If we look at reality separated in half, on one side is truth and on the other side is deception, as humans we are sitting on the deception side of reality trying to deduce the truth, while God (who is the truth) reaches out to us with his Word and provides for us a way out of deception and in to truth (this way is the Gospel).

The problem with us Christians is that we try to apply to the Bible the same relativistic methods for truth discovery. So we take a bunch of stuff we have accumulated from the deception side of reality and then throw in God's Word and try to make it work. All we end up with is a "which on of these is not like the other" game, which inevitably excludes the Bible. We try to measure the standard, and you can't do that, God's Word is the standard, everything else is measured by it, otherwise it's not the standard, whatever you are measuring it with is.

For example, if I take a string of unknown length and measure it with a ruler, the ruler tells me how long the string is, because the ruler is the standard. I don't take the string of unknown length to measure the ruler, it just doesn't make any sense, but it is what we have constantly been trying to do as humans ever since God told us His standard.

All evolutionary discoveries just go to illustrate to me the truthfulness of the Genesis story; that we do live in a world that has been cursed and in which life must toil and adapt merely to survive. In my thinking, the earth as it originally was created would have provided no reason for a species to evolve, sin and death caused this necessity. I don't necessarily believe that any new creature was born of evolution, but I do believe that creatures have changed as a result of the sin and death brought into the world by man.

Creationist's arguments are often weak because we don't have good doctrine. I've heard statements like "well if evolution is real then are you saying that God made a mistake when he made the world and the world had to change to correct that mistake", and my reply would be "Have you read the Bible? God didn't make the mistake, man did!!!! And only be the blood of Christ and the word of His power does death and chaos not overtake us all!!!"