On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Jonathan Clarke wrote:
> I would add to Allan's excellent points on some of the theological
> reasons why people support YEC. After many discussions I would add two
> more.
>
> 1. A theology of death that requires physical death to be consequence of
> the fall and regards this link as so complete that denial of it is a
> denial of the fall and the atonement.
>
The Gap Theory, which was once very popular among evangelicals, involved
death before the Fall. In fact, most of the fossils were attributed to the
ruin of creation caused by the fall of Satan. I don't recall ever having
heard of Scofield being lambasted for this supposed heresy back before the
rise of Henry Morris's movement. This would lead me to suspect that the
propagandizing by Morris's followers has played a very major role in
giving people the idea that death before the Fall is heretical.
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
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