Re: ICR's ACTS & FACTS for Feb 2005

Well, I have just taken a break from writing up about the ICR (and of course
using Numbers' wonderful book) and see how both Baumgardner's predecessors
Shlusher and Barnes left after a short time. Slusher under a cloud but
Numbers does not say what type - glenn please tell me. Numbers tells of his
Ph.D. !!!!! Numbers called Gish bumptious, but I did enjoy rattling his cage
in Shrewsbury many years ago. That's the trouble with YEC meetings in the
UK, they don't allow question time but I think two Michael's are to blame,
one being Mike Howgate an atheist who founded APE the Association to Protect
Evolution and then restricted membership to two when Sam Berry wanted to
join.

Is it too much to ask the ASA and Christians in science to oppose this crap?

Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "John and Carol Burgeson" <burgytwo@juno.com>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 8:25 PM
Subject: ICR's ACTS & FACTS for Feb 2005

> ICR's ACTS & FACTS for Feb 2005
>
> Lead article -- "Well Known geophysicist Joins ICR Faculty."
>
> Dr John Baumgardner, converted to Creationism after attending an ICR
> creation seminar led by Gish and Morris, recognizing the clear evidence
> in the geological record proving the global flood, entered graduate
> school (UCLA) to study geophysics, receiving a Ph.D in 1983. He worked at
> Los Almos, developed the TERRA computer program to study planet
> interiors, has published widely in secular journals. As a member of the
> RATE group, he has shown that radio isotope data supports the YEC
> position. His work was reported in a June 1997 US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT
> article. He joined ICR on 1/1/2005.
>
> Glenn -- do you know this individual?
>
> page 2. More blurbs on RATE, and mention of three new books by ICR --
> UNIVERSE BY DESIGN by Danny Faukner (astronomer), FROZEN IN TIME, by
> Michael Oard, and an update of Marvin Lubenow's BONES OF CONTENTION.
>
> page 3. Account of the successful tour (England) of Andrew Snelling and
> Phillip Johnson.
>
> page 4. ICR's graduate school summer schedule. ICR received continuing
> accreditation from TRACS (5 more years).
>
> page 5. Article arguing design vs macroevolution using the butterfly
> example.
>
> Impact #380 insert: Article on how stem cell research greases the
> "slippery slope" to godlessness.
>
> Back to Genesis insert: Review of Dembski's THE DESIGN REVOLUTION. Fairly
> critical of the ID philosophical approach. In the article, the author,
> Henry Morris, states "Craetionism can, indeed, be adequately justified
> just by scientific evidence and reasoning." But, he says, there are two
> fallacies with ID> (1) It is ineffective. (2) It is not really new.
>
> Morris again points to the ICR literature on the Bombardier beetle" as
> both a valid argument and one akin to ID.
>
> Final article: Does the gall bladder have a necessary function? by
> Henry's son, John D. Morris. The old "vestigial organs" argument. Nothing
> new.
>
> What really bothers me is that this crap goes out "in the name of, and
> for the glory of, the Lord." Frequent appeals saying "for those of us who
> have a high view of scripture," claiming the moral high ground
> dishonestly.
>
> Sigh.
>
> JB
>
> www.burgy.50megs.com/morse.htm
>
> A review of LIGHTNING MAN, the accursed life of Samuel F. B. Morse
>
>
>
Received on Fri Feb 11 15:56:25 2005