Re: uniformitarianism from Re: The YECs have won

If you read Lyell you will find that he did not assume constant rates in the
past but as Bivalve says poor Lyell gets maligned. There is even the touch
of catastrophist in Lyell.

I like Ted's comments. I often reckon that YECs invert the confict thesis of
science and religion so the roles of Cowboys and injuns are reversed.

It is interesting that YECs ignore such scientific Christians as Sedgwick,
Henslow Buckland and silliman and Hitchcock

Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Davis" <TDavis@messiah.edu>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>; <bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 8:25 PM
Subject: uniformitarianism from Re: The YECs have won

> >>> bivalve <bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com> 2/25/2005 3:09:12 PM
> >>>wrote:
>
> I have also seen the claim that atheists have to be strict
uniformitarians,
> in the caricature of Lyell sense of assuming past uniformity in things
that
> don't have constant rates. Not sure why this is supposed to be the case.
>
> Ted replies:
> Because it makes a really nice straw man to set on fire. Creationist
> history of science is, if anything, even more selective in its
> intepretations than the old "warfare of religion and science" approach.
>
> ted
>
>
>
Received on Sun Feb 27 17:34:22 2005