From: douglas.hayworth@perbio.com
Date: Fri Aug 22 2003 - 11:38:27 EDT
Loren:
This is a great idea...except for the suggestion of giving lectures to
church groups. Anti-evolutionists have no problem getting their people into
the pulpits (even Sunday morning sermons!) of many evangelical churches,
but how many of these same churches are going to allow the likes of Howard
VanTill, or George Murphy, or even Terry Gray through the doors even on a
Wednesday night?
Many of us manage to win a hearing in our own churches only after years of
attendance, membership and building of trust. Our ability to get a hearing
in other churches is very limited. If we hope to gain a hearing in more
conservative churches, we will have to find evolutionary biologists from
those conservative church denominations to join our "veritas crusade". Such
people probably do not exist in many conservative church groups. There are
only a few denominations, like the PCA, that have fairly conservative
elements while still allowing for and cultivating academic freedom and
respect for evolutionary biologists (and other science fields).
Douglas
Loren Haarsma
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, John W Burgeson wrote:
> Having followed this issue for ~ 30 years, I see no reversal in the
> future; rather, the margin by which the young-earthers are winning the
> hearts and minds of the population will ever increase.
>
> If anyone has a solution to the problem, speak up. Please.
I have a suggestion which is both slightly cynical and seriously
practical. Borrow one particular tactic from the ICR and the Discovery
Institute: Locate a few rich benefactors who will pay the salaries of
half a dozen or a dozen people whose entire job it will be to promote this
one particular agenda by writing letters, articles, and books, pushing
those books onto bookstore shelves, and traveling around the country
giving lectures and debates to church and campus groups.
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