On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 11:28:08 -0500 "Ted Davis" <TDavis@messiah.edu>
writes:
> Gordon is right: Scofield endorsed the gap view in his Bible edition.
>
> Indeed, that's where Rimmer got it in the first place. And Scofield
> was
> wildly and widely popular with "fundamentalists" in the 1920s
> through 1950s
> (at least). They did not see his view as "evolutionist". But the
> YECs do
> see it that way--again, b/c they simply will not allow an old
> universe and
> earth, b/c of this death issue. It's their form of the central
> theological
> issue in the entire origins conversation, namely theodicy.
>
> ted
>
Note also that Scofield antedated both the Seventh Day Adventist (George
McCready Price) and later Fundamentalist (Whitcomb, Morris) views. Some
of the authors of /The Fundamentals/ (pre-1920)were comfortable with
evolution.
Dave
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