From: Michael Roberts (michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk)
Date: Fri Oct 03 2003 - 18:18:37 EDT
You asked me once before. It would take too long to itemise all his
misquotes. As I said I gave up 100. On the Talk Origins site Steve
Schimmerich - an evangelical Geologist who has taught for Wheaton College
has a discussion of Woodmarappe, though that is not his real name and some
of the correspondence between them.
As I said when he retracts his distortions and Austin stops doing the same
then I will be willing to listen. Until then I have my doubts about their
competence and their sincerity.
Suggestion of apparent age of the earth are abhorrent as if God did that
then he is a liar and unworthy of worship. Period.
I wonder about naive YECs except for young children and the semi-literate.
The average person in a US or UK church who adopts YEC knows that it is
opposed by the vast proportion of scientists and also by many evangelical
scientists. Surely if they have graduated from high school they have the
ability to look into the whole issue and discern truth from falsehood. After
all they also have to decide for themselves whether Jesus is Lord, Saviour
and divine and whether or not the Virgin Birth and Empty Tomb are true and
the atoning death. They will know that many deny these doctrines. Are they
simply being led by the nose as some seem to be arguing for when they say we
should soft-pedal with them. They are responsible for swallowing false
teaching.
( However that does not mean we should not deal with them sensitively but
they might need a challenge to look for truth.)
Michael
PS Just had a lovely day in Wales with Jeff Greenberg of Wheaton looking at
the geology in preparation for a field trip.
----- Original Message -----
From: "allenroy" <allenroy@peoplepc.com>
To: "Michael Roberts" <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk>
Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>; "John W Burgeson" <jwburgeson@juno.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: RATE
> Michael Roberts wrote:
>
> > Then consider Woodmarappe's work espec his CRSQ article of 1979 where he
> > lists 700 "anomalous" dates. I checked 100 which were all misquotes etc.
>
> Do you have this documented somewhere? I'd like to see it.
>
> Allen
>
>
>
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