Hi Karl, you wrote:
I don't really disagree with what you said, but I don't see it as
particularly useful either. The type of articles you suggest have been
done over and over and over again. And as has been noted time and again
on this list, with very, very few exceptions, no one committed to YEC is
going to listen to them.
A special issue of PSCF would be useful to me as an easy to hand out,
comprehensive, authoritative resource. Call it a sales tool if you
like, or a recruiting brochure. I would hand them out like soap samples
at a super market. They'll find their way into receptive hands.
Nothing is going to convince John Morris or Larry Vardiman or any of
that crowd, but there are plenty of Christians who have no science
education and they are getting their training in science from YEC
sources. When I talked to the sales girl in the Christian book store
she didn't know what the Cambrian Period was. But if I had had in the
trunk of my car a special issue with lots of arguments, something might
have resonated with her. But if we plopped it on a shelf as one more in
a stack of issues, then for sure no one will listen.
Frankly, the question is mainly theological not scientific. Until we
can provide theologically adequate alternatives for YEC folks, they are
not going to abandon their position on the basis of negative evidence
alone.
Karl, I'm doing everything I can. The book I'm working on now shows the
historical basis for Genesis 2-11. When the history becomes known it
will erode away the argument that YEC is a valid, literal method of
interpretation.
http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/2003/PSCF12-03Fischer.pdf
Dick Fischer
Dick Fischer, Genesis Proclaimed Association
Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
<http://www.genesisproclaimed.org> www.genesisproclaimed.org
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