I didn't think YEC views are very common among UCCF- I used to live in
Leicester (where UCCF are based) and have known quite a few people who
work for UCCF. None of them have been YEC, or if they were, they haven't
mentioned it.
Neither when I was doing my undergrad degree (Oxford) or my Master's
(Sussex) did there seem to be many holding YEC views within the CUs- it
seemed quite rare. Up in St Andrews it has been quite different. I did
join the CU at one point, and a bit later one of the members of the then
Committe did point out to me that when one joins one signs a declaration
to say that one accepts the Bible as the Word of God and supreme in all
matters of faith, and thus one would accept a young universe created over
a 6-day period.
The UCCF Doctrinal Basis is silent on the issue. One YEC criticism of UCCF
I have heard is that its Doctrinal Basis doesn't say that the world is
young.
Graham
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, M.B.Roberts wrote:
> Koalas? Gillies is only stressing the logic of YEC, either koalas lived in
> Mesopotamia and ate local eucaplyptus or two little koalas swung from tree
> to tree from sydney to Baghdad. Iprefer Kangarooos hopping acrtoss from
> Darwin to Bali.
>
> The fact is that in Britain is that YEC is signiifcant but not to the same
> extent as in the USA. Bowden is one of the leading writers whose views are
> HMMorris clones. However YEC has made very strong inroads into the IVF /UCCF
> or IVCF in the USA. Most indendent Evangelical churches are YEC and from my
> observation about 5% of Anglican clergy are.
>
> Regards
>
> Michael
>
Graham Richard Pointer
Dept of Physics and Astronomy
North Haugh
St Andrews
Fife
KY16 9SS
Scotland
http://star-www.st-and.ac.uk/~grp1
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