Re: Stealth attack on evolution

The student's scholarship was plain appalling. Shoddy superficial work
M
----- Original Message -----
From: "Burgy" <jwburgeson@juno.com>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: Stealth attack on evolution

>
> "Some years ago a student produced a project for his final year degree on
John Newton the slave trader turned abolitionist.
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> Despite all my input he argued that Newton's faith was insincere because
he was a slave trader and a brutal one at that. Before conversion and for a
time afterwards Newton was a brutal slave trader and then repented of his
slaving."
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> I think that is a fair example to cite. Newton's story has always bothered
me. It seems to be parallel. You did not say anything about the student's
scholarship. Did he look at ALL the evidence?
>
> In Ahmanson's case, I have not (yet) found any convincing evidence that he
has changed his position of endorsing the Chalcedon goals. Newton "went
public" with his repudiation; if Ahmanson has done this it does not appear
on my internet searches. So far, anyway.
>
> I entered "Ahmanson" and "chalcedon" into a Google search yesterday.
several interesting sites appeared:
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> http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v08n1/chrisre3.html
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> http://reason.com/9811/col.olson.shtml
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> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/997715/posts
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> http://watch.pair.com/database.html
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> http://www.theocracywatch.org/ahmanson.htm
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> http://blog.au.org/2004/08/mullah_makeover.html
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> jb
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Received on Wed Feb 9 02:22:46 2005