From: Howard J. Van Till (hvantill@chartermi.net)
Date: Mon Oct 06 2003 - 10:26:22 EDT
>From: "Josh Bembenek" <jbembe@hotmail.com>
> Howard, from what I've come to understand the primary importance is being
> able to claim that mankind is fallen and that has been inherited from Adam
> and Eve. In this view, The Fall requires some kind of mechanistic transfer
> into all of humankind from Adam, otherwise we had no fall. This is
> partially bolstered by the idea that God looked at His creation and called
> it "good." Would the creation of hominids that die, have disease, etc. and
> are inherently fallen creatures be "good?"
>
> This is an interesting question.
Josh,
Thanks for the comments above. I think you have identified some of the
important theological concerns (that is, important within a certain
community) to which YEC'ism is a response.
Thanks also for your other posting re the Ken Ham presentations. In that
report your focus was more on the authority and factuality of the biblical
canon and the kind of religious certainty that it supports. My judgment is
that YEC also functions as an important means of providing support to a
particular concept of scripture and a particular approach to its
interpretation, both being driven by an intense desire for religious
certainty and an equally intense discomfort with (or fear of) uncertainty.
Howard Van Till
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