Norm Woodward wrote:
>Dick Fischer wrote:
>
> It is of little wonder why the intelligent design movement seems to find
> it difficult to take positions on basic concepts like the age of the
> earth and descent with modification when their leading organization
> suffers so much confusion.
>________________________
>
> I guess I am admitting more ignorance that I should, but does the ID
> movement take any position on the age of the earth? I thought their
> arguments concerned the complexity of micro-biology, and macro-evolution,
> not cosmology.
Actually, Skip Evans wrote that. He is with the NCSE. However, I will
offer a bit of commentary. If you know Behe's position, he believes in an
old earth and even mutual shared common ancestry between humans and
primates. I know, I asked him. He says not one word about his
evolutionist beliefs in his book on ID. Why? Phil Johnson has no
illusions about the age of the earth. Again, his books say nothing about
it. Again, why?
Simply put, creationists buy books. Why risk alienating them with the
truth? It is just this duplicity coming from those who call themselves
"Christian" that gets right up my nose.
Dick Fischer - The Origins Solution - www.orisol.com
"The answer we should have known about 150 years ago"
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