From: Glenn Morton (glennmorton@entouch.net)
Date: Sun Oct 05 2003 - 11:03:31 EDT
Hi Wayne, you wrote:
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Wayne: What I don't quite understand about YEC folk is that even at that
time,
with all the raging hormonal processes and rebel-without-a-cause matters
of adolescence, I knew deep in my heart-of-hearts that God actually
could have equally created through evolution. I sometimes used it to
shut Christians out with "the buzzword", but I could not run away from
that thought in the back of my mind.
GRM: I too had that same feeling when I was a YEC. I knew deep down that
the position I was publishing on was in deep trouble. Yet I continued
because I believed! I suspect lots of YECs are just like that. And I didn't
want to beleive that my fellow christians would fill my head with mush.
Christians are supposed to be honest in all their dealings.
Wayne: Is it that some people just simply don't even want to consider
examining any other possibilities than a 6000 year old earth? Is it that
they
just want to be left alone and don't want to be challenged to think? Is
it fear
of facing oneself and doubt? I can understand doubt, but this level of
denial is hard for me to understand.
GRM: The fear is that if one accepts evolution you have to accept that
the Bible is false! That last statement will get the hackles of the
old-earthers up! But before the complaints and defenses come in, hear me
out. YEC leaders constantly tell these people that if evolution is true,
then the Bible is false. They are programmed to follow that line of
reasoning and thus when faced with obvious data that doesn't fit or flatly
contradicts their viewpoint, they look into the precipice and see atheism.
And they recoil. That programming is why I have struggled with these issues
for years.
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