In your recent post you said:
>Do you suppose that the reason why the YECs have been so successful is that
>they, more than any other group since Darwin's "Origin of Species" appeared,
>have tried to dismantle the Darwinian evolutionary thought patterns imbued
>in practically all of us thru our socialistic humanistic educational system,
>and that they fervently feel that to espouse a YEC viewpoint is the best
>weapon against Darwinian evolution?
>
>I guess the problem (or task) then becomes...how do OECs counter the
>Darwinian evolutionary ideas just as dramatically, convincingly, and
>forcefully...and as successfully, as have the YECs. I gather that this is
>the next step.
I feel compelled to again address this unwarranted and false dichotomy
between creation and evolution. The purpose of evangelical Christianity is
not the countering of Darwinian evolution! How many times does it have to
be said that God's creative activity and a progressive organic history are
not necessary antithetical concepts? Many evangelical Christians, both
scientists and theologians, see no inherent conflict. Even B.B. Warfield
the author of the doctrine of inerrancy and several authors of the
"Fundamentals" saw no inherrent conflict between creation and some form of
evolution. I am an evangelical Christian who, like many others on this
forum, finds the evidence for evolution simply overhwleming. I am grieved
that Christians are so good at consuming their own!
In Christs service,
Keith
kbmill@ksu.ksu.edu