Hi all,
W.E.>> Gold's implication is that Wells didn't get into Darwin-bashing
*until* he was in his graduate program in embryology. The above, read by
the uninformed, might give the impression that Wells derived his
anti-Darwinian stances from what he learned in his graduate studies.
Interesting. <<
Just to add to Wesley's point:
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Darwinism: Why I Went for a Second Ph.D.
by Jonathan Wells, Ph.D.-Berkeley, CA
At the end of the Washington Monument rally in September, 1976, I was
admitted to the second entering class at Unification Theological Seminary.
During the next two years, I took a long prayer walk every evening. I asked
God what He wanted me to do with my life, and the answer came not only
through my prayers, but also through Father's [Rev. Sun Myung Moon - TB]
many talks to us, and through my studies. Father encouraged us to set our
sights high and accomplish great things.
He also spoke out against the evils in the world; among them, he frequently
criticized Darwin's theory that living things originated without God's
purposeful, creative activity. My studies included modern theologians who
took Darwinism for granted and thus saw no room for God's involvement in
nature or history; in the process, they re- interpreted the fall, the
incarnation, and even God as products of human imagination.
Father's words, my studies, and my prayers convinced me that I should
devote my life to destroying Darwinism, just as many of my fellow
Unificationists had already devoted their lives to destroying Marxism. When
Father chose me (along with about a dozen other seminary graduates) to enter
a Ph.D. program in 1978, I welcomed the opportunity to prepare myself for
battle.
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See: http://www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Talks/Wells/DARWIN.htm for
the rest of this article.
Bye
Troy Britain (Amateur Naturalist)
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