And presumably carrying a pair each of marsuipal moles and sugar gliders in the
female's pouch, along with several species of antichenus, legless lizards, and
thorny devils as...
Jon
"M.B.Roberts" wrote:
> Jonathan,
>
> You know as well as I do that a kangaroo can hop all the way from Sydney to
> the Tigris and hop back again! It would be unntruthful to conceal such
> wonderful truths for our youngsters. If we dont they might become Christians
>
> Yours
>
> Screwtape.
>
> I totally agree with you and I get fed up with kiddies view of the Ark and
> think we should complain at every oppurtunity.
>
> Somewhere Martin Rudwick wrote that many criticiuse the Christian Faith from
> an understanding which stopped developing when they left sunday school at 10
> or 11.
> A recent silly example is the Diocesan Children's work in Blackburn diocese
> which held a Noah's Ark day at Blackpool Zoo thus reinforcing heresy and
> destroying kiddies' faith
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan Clarke" <jdac@alphalink.com.au>
> Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 11:11 AM
> Subject: Re: Why?/Re: Answersingenesis
>
> >
> >
> > "M.B.Roberts" wrote (in part):
> >
> > >
> > > However I suspect but have no evidence that sunday School teachers
> naively
> > > were YEC without knowing they were and thus fixed yec sympathies at
> grass
> > > root level
> > >
> > > Michael
> >
> > I think the role of SS material, together with Bible story books, etc., in
> > formulating attitudes of Christians to a number of issues is under
> estimated.
> > This is especially the case that such material is often visual. How many
> > pictures of the garden of Eden for example, have lions lying with the
> lamb, or
> > even dinosaurs in the background with a pale skinned blond or brown haired
> Adam
> > and Eve (Adam clean shaven of course) with strageically placed greenery in
> the
> > foreground? Or with the flood account, how many have animals from the
> Americas
> > east Asia, or Australia boarding the ark? the power of such images in
> colouring
> > the perceptions of people, especailly those who might think no further
> about
> > them, may be very great.
> >
> > Jon
> >
> >
> >
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