Re: asa-digest V1 #706

David B. Fenske (dbfenske@axion.net)
Tue, 20 Jan 1998 18:31:14 -0800

At 09:45 AM 1/20/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Allen Roy wrote:
>
>> What about the odd possibility that most people believe what the Bible
>> says? !
>>
>> ICR is successful because they show that science supports recent
>> creation week and Flood Catastrophe.
>
>I appreciate (really!) your POV, Allen, for you are one of the more
>articulate YECers I've encountered on the LISTSERVs.
>
>Your first suggestion I might agree with if you'd let me add qualifiers.
>
>Your second I have to disagree with, of course. I think my friend Dr.
>Gish and his colleagues are very successful at what they do because they
>know very well how to market their product. (The same comment for Dawkins
>& Sagan, BTW). 40 years in the business world has convinced me that
>marketing is 90% of the game -- product quality, as long as it meets
>minimum requirements, is the other 10%.
>
>I've followed ICR for over 20 years -- read about everything they had to
>say, because there was hardly anyone else addressing the issues. But
>their "science," and I speak here from my physics training and
>experience, simply didn't add up. That's just IMHO, of course, and I
>appreciate that you, and some others here, see it differently.
>
>If I wanted to promote the YEC approach, a very literal Genesis, I think
>I could do so. My starting point would be Gosse's book. I would appeal
>only to "acts of God" and not to scientific data.
>
>One question I've asked of many YECers -- what do you think of Gosse's
>book? Do you endorse it? Ignore it? What? His explanation for a YEC and a
>literal Genesis is unassailable.
>
>Burgy
>
For those of us who haven't read Gosse's book, could you provide a short
description of his thesis?

Dave F.