Re: Living and Worshipping in the real world

My church has a stong YEC contingent(at least one homeschooling family uses
Kent Hovind materials... sigh...) and many more are enthusiastically
swallowing the ID bait (and assuming it is scientific validation of
creationism) but thankfully our pastor does not insist on that line and has
given sermons on evolution where he acknowledged theistic evolution as a
valid perspective for Christians. He asked to read my paper in Evolution
and Human Behavior and trusted me to teach his kids in Sunday School for 3
years. He aslo removed Well's Icon's of Evolutions from the church
bookstand last year after I sent him some reviews of it. I'd like to think
it was the scientific inaccuracies that persuaded him, but it probably had
as much to do with Well's Unification Church affiliation. My goal this year

is to persuade him to offer Falk's Coming to Peace wiuth Science onlongside
some of the YEC and ID volumes that are offered.

Most in my church know my TE leanings. I have had discussions with our
youth group leaders, who did a unit using Strobel's Case for a Creator
earlier this year. They gave me a copy of the book and invited my review,
so I am hoping to get to speak with the youth on that topic a little later
this year. (it'll be interesting to see if I'm still welcome when he gets
my real opinion there!) I was able to gently correct our youth leader when I

heard he had taughtthe students about Darwin's "deathbed conversion."
(thanks, Ted!)

I am also hoping to generate some interest in viewing and discussing the
Francis Collins video in my church this year.

Louise

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Louise M. Freeman, PhD
Psychology Dept
Mary Baldwin College
Staunton, VA 24401
540-887-7326
FAX 540-887-7121
Received on Mon Jan 23 11:00:11 2006