RE: The YEC's have won

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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of Don Winterstein
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 3:41 AM
To: asa; John and Carol Burgeson
Subject: Re: The YEC's have won

Burgy wrote:

"The YECs have permanently co-opted evangelical Christianity, and, as
the mainstream denominations fade away, will eventually "become"
Christianity."

Here's something to mull:

Biola U in southern California has been hosting lots of lectures
pertaining to science and Christianity over the past couple of years,
and because I live nearby and have been interested in the topics, I've
attended several. I'd always thought of Biola as a bastion of
fundamentalism in the worst sense of the word, but the more I see of
them the less I believe they're such worst-case fundamentalists.

Judging from audience questions, some of the students are about as bad
as they get, but certainly not all, and it's impossible for me to
estimate percentages. However, all the lecturers who've had PhDs in
science--and that's (I think) a large majority--so far have invariably
(although sometimes apologetically) presented the scientifically
accepted ages for whatever world phenomena they've been talking about.

A lecture last Monday by John Bloom, a Biola faculty member with PhDs in
physics and ancient near eastern studies, is freshest in my mind. He
devoted the first half of his 3-hour lecture to an overview of hominid
(and Neanderthal) data, including some details of bone structure
differences and cultural artifacts or lack thereof. Then he speculated
about whether Adam may have been Homo erectus.
*****end of Don's note****
[Glenn Morton]

First, I didn't think John was ever a YEC, I might be wrong. The second
thing I notice is that they are moving in the direction of my position.
Having long advocated that the only way one can stay within the data of
modern science and at the same time preserve any shred of historicity to
Genesis, one must move Adam way way back in time. I prefer further than
H. erectus, but few dare tread where I do.

See.
Morton, G. R., (1997). Adam, Apes and Anthropology, DMD Publishers,
Dallas, Texas

Morton, G. R. (1997). The Mediterranean Flood. Perspectives on Science
and Christian Faith, 49:4:238-251.
http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1997/PSCF12-97Morton.html

Morton, G. R. (1999) Dating Adam. Perspectives on Science and Christian
Faith, 51:2:87-97.
http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1999/PSCF6-99Morton.html

Morton, G. R. (1999) Planning Ahead: Requirement for Moral
Accountability, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith,
51:3:176-179
http://home.entouch.net/dmd/planningahead.htm

Morton, G. R. (2002) "Language at the Dawn of Humanity," Perspectives on
Science and Christian Faith, 54(2002):3:193-194.
Received on Sat Mar 26 11:50:07 2005