From: Michael Roberts (michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk)
Date: Tue Nov 18 2003 - 13:22:45 EST
To look at YEC and Racism historically ;
1. The SBC was formed in 1845 at least in part in opposition to slave-owning
by the "northern" Baptists.
2. The Southern Presbyterians like Dabney in the 1860s adopted a 6 day
creationism and rejection of geology to buttress their views of the sons of
Ham and support of slavery.
3. Bob Jones Univ a bastion of YEC teaching in science has only in recent
years allowed non-whites to be students and I believe still bans
"inter-racial " dating.
4. In the 60s Duyevene de Wit of the Univ of Potchefstrom (which I have
driven through) in the Orange Free State in South Africa wrote an YEC book
which I am sure was republished by Presbyterain and Reformed (who published
TGF in 1961). He, according to Russell Maatman of Dordt, argued that
non-whites were a degeneration of Adam. Apartheid was also anti
evolutionary, and comes out in Afrikaner ideas of "Christian Higher
Education". Evolution was not taught in the OFS.
5. Henry Morris the founder father of modern YEC argued for racism as Glenn
a nd I quoted in a book published in 1991, which is very recent. Morris has
received no criticism for that racism and is still respected by YEC. That
raises moral doubts about YEC. Morris of course is the founder etc of ICR
and thus that organisation should be seen as morally suspect. Surely Ken Ham
et al should have lambasted H Morris for his racism and not just the
evolutionist, who have had a drubbing from the likes of Gould and Ruse.
Both "evolutionist" (but not Charles Darwin) and YEC have a sordid past on
racism, both need to be acknowledged and not used selectively as a moral
put-you-down.
The main problem is that recently "evolutionists " have not been racist but
the founder and doyen of YEC has. It is fair to judge him and his movement
in the same way as they condemn us, but with a modicum of Christian love and
charity which is frequently denied to us apostate Christians who accept that
earth is more than 10,000 years old.
I know Ted is trying to be eirenic but we should speak out about immorality.
Michael
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