RE: have we forgotten who the enemy is?

Glenn wrote:
Yes, I think you are wrong. If you go back to when geology and other sciences were developing, in the late 18th and early 19th century, you will find that the prevailing paradigm among church laiety was YEC.

rich:
Yes, but that was long ago. The Enlightenment and Marxism also militated against traditional forms, with Marxism responsible for millions of Christian martyrs and destroyed churches. There is also a real documented shift by social scientists away from traditional forms in the '60s at the same time as the sexual revolution which is also a move away from traditional behaviors. Given these subsequent massive ideological movements, YEC and ID are insignificant artifacts of an earlier age. I'm on Ian Pitchford's evolutionary psychology list of 3300 scientists. They scoff at YEC and ID but interestingly display an active animus against Christianity, with the main complaint that it is responsible for 2,000 years of Jewish misery. A significant percentage of social scientists are Jewish and hold this position. If you want to know the intellectual climate, join more lists other than those populated by your colleagues, post Christian positions and wait for your responses.
I attended the Human Behavior and Evolution Society's annual conference in the year 2000 at Amherst. Pinker, Dawkins and Wright presented. Robert Trivers was there. They gave a eulogy to William Hamilton, arguably the greatest evlutionary biologist of the 20th century. At the symposium on using evolutionary psychology to study religion, I watched the liberal attack on attempts to scientifically study the Bible first hand. I journaled the event in a word.doc which is available upon request.

rich faussette
Received on Sat Feb 19 09:25:38 2005