Re: Cobb County

What makes you think TEs always keep quiet? For myself, I try to speak up in appropriate forums and make it clear that the church has a stake in good science education for several reasons, not least of which is the fact that promoting the idea of inevitable conflict between creation and evolution causes serious damage to the church & loss of faith for some Christians.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Vernon Jenkins
  To: D. F. Siemens, Jr.
  Cc: asa@calvin.edu
  Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 6:07 PM
  Subject: Re: Cobb County

  Dave,

  It interests me that you TEs invariably remain silent when these educational controversies arise. Clearly, by so doing you provide tacit support for those who have no knowledge of the Spirit of truth (John 16:13). Shouldn't all Christians be actively involved in encouraging healthy criticism of an unproven (and unprovable) theory that has, manifestly, borne so much evil fruit?

  Vernon
  www.otherbiblecode.com

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: D. F. Siemens, Jr.
    To: vernon.jenkins@virgin.net
    Cc: asa@calvin.edu
    Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 11:54 PM
    Subject: Re: Cobb County

    Let's see. I have recently come across controversy about the origin of AIDS, about the use of polio vaccine (and the consequent spread of polio to several African countries where it has been controlled), about cell phones and high tension lines, infant vaccines and autism, and probably others.
    Dave

    On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 23:32:30 -0000 "Vernon Jenkins" <vernon.jenkins@virgin.net> writes:
      George wrote: "One of the main problems with this and similar 'warnings' is that they pick out evolution as something uniquely controversial...".But it surely is uniquely controversial, isn't it? For example, do we have an ongoing, widespread and heated debate concerning the germ theory of disease, relativity, or plate tectonics? No, because none of these challenges the Authority of the Judeo-Christian Scriptures as the revealed word of God. Furthermore, as far as I am aware, evolution is the only theory that comes with a built-in _imperative_. By that I mean, You _must_ believe this to be true - otherwise how can you possibly be trusted to think and behave rationally? Again, the fact that its proponents want to suppress all healthy scientific skepticism of it suggests that they believe certain aspects are better kept hidden.

      Vernon
Received on Sun Jan 16 19:57:58 2005