In a message dated 4/29/01 3:22:02 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
topper@robertschirk.u-net.com writes:
> Frankly Haran Yahya's site has the worst of YEC with all the usual
> distortions etc etc .
> From my British ignorance I thought DI was largely Christian especially on
> the ID front, despite Wells and Berlinksi.
>
And I should be clear that my impression is that most of the people at the
Discovery Institute (at least the Intelligent Design part -- they have other
interest areas that I'm not so familiar with) *are* Christians.
But there is a distinction between something that has the central purpose of
being a Christian ministry, and something where a lot of Christians are
participating but whose central purpose is some other agenda. Clearly the DI
is in the second category. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with being
in that category -- my worry is whether Christians are being misled into
thinking the DI is in the first category. If, for example (and I don't know
if this is the case or not), they portrayed themselves as a Christian
ministry when raising funds from Christians, there would be a problem with
bearing false witness.
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