Same World. Different Authority. Different Conclusion.

Why the origins debate begins with epistemic authority, not neutral evidence.

The origins debate is not merely about fossils, genetics, geology, or cosmology.

It is about authority.

Do we interpret Scripture through the controlling lens of the current natural-historical reconstruction?

Or do we interpret nature as God’s created witness under the governing authority of Scripture?

That is the root difference.

Nature as prime leads one direction.

Scripture as prime leads another.

Same world. Same data. Different authority. Different interpretation. Different conclusion.

Exegesis receives the text as authority.

Eisegesis makes the text serve a framework already accepted from outside the text.