Re: have we forgotten who the enemy is?

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 06:06:27 -0600, Glenn Morton
<glennmorton@entouch.net> wrote:
> Feb 18, 2005
>
> Jack wrote:
>
> > These comments are an example of why I started this thread in
> > the first
> > place. YEC is a problem, but a problem greater than atheistic
> > materialism? I hardly think so. What philosophy is rampant
> > in our culture?
> > It certainly isnt YEC it is materialism.
>
> Jack, what you miss is that I know many atheists who actively fight
> Christianity are former young-earth creationists. YEC actually drives
> people to that atheistic materialistic world view you think is such a
> problem. In fact, I think one of the fastest ways to atheism is to teach
> a person YEC (which tells its adherents that if evolution is true then
> the Bible is false) and send that person into the study of science.
> When they come to believe that evolution is true (which most of them
> will do) they then do what they have been programmed to do--reject the
> Bible as false. And thus another atheist has arisen.
>
> Indeed in my own life I have struggled against becoming an atheist. I
> see YEC nonsense and wonder if god is real because it seems that one
> must deny all reality to believe in him. And on the other hand, those
> who say it figurative cause me problems as well because I think it
> reduces any divine communication (see my posts here on the noisy channel
> theorem).

It's sad, Glenn, that people just don't get it. Our goal is defending
the Bible. We critique YEC and ID because we see the damage that it
does to acceptance of Scripture by the greater society. Thus, we are
the true friends of the YEC and ID proponents.

As you have shown, YEC and ID are destructive to evangelical
Christianity. Another victim is the idea of absolute truth. In order
to defend YEC and ID subjectivism is promoted because the evidence
must be ignored one way or the other. The "stickers" promote not only
skepticism but also utter cynicism. In the end, the Bible is rejected
by the modern and ignored by the post-modern. *Sigh*
Received on Fri Feb 18 11:19:31 2005