Re: [asa] The Flood/Creation and Evolution - A Lay Pastor's Perspective

At 12:53 PM 6/20/2006, Terry M. Gray wrote:
>Janice,
>
>For what it's worth, "Creation and Evolution -
>A Lay Pastor's Perspective" (the lead piece in
>this Free Republic thread) is a perspective
>shared by many--perhaps most--in the ASA and on the ASA list.

@ I would pretty much agree.

>Looks like it created a bit of stir, not really
>a surprise. Thanks for the post. ~ TG

@ You're welcome. Since the article was
posted at 10 AM yesterday up until about 15
minutes ago, there have been almost 200 replies
to it, but almost 2000 people who have read the thread:

<http://www.freerepublic.com/focus//focus/f-news/1652400/posts>CREATION
AND EVOLUTION - A LAY PASTOR'S PERSPECTIVE
  <http://www.freerepublic.com/focus//focus/f-news/1652400/posts#comment?q=1>196
replies · 1,996+ views

That is a lot of exposure in 24 hours.

One of the posters references Glenn Morton and
ASA here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1652400/posts?page=152#152

Some of you who teach at Kansas State University, may know this "FReeper":

<http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1652400/posts?page=184#184>184
posted on 06/21/2006 9:53:57 AM EDT by
<http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1652400//~thereaderdavid/>The_Reader_David
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1652400/posts?page=184#184

 From his FR profile page: "Actually my
screen name [The_Reader_David] is out of date. I
now serve the St. Mary Magdalene Orthodox Mission
in Manhattan, KS as its Subdeacon and Mission
Council President. I am a Professor of
Mathematics at Kansas State University where I
teach whatever I get stuck with, and do research
on categorical algebra and quantum topology (a
strange corner of mathematics which studies
low-dimensional topology by methods which look
formally like Dirac's bracket formulation of
quantum mechanics, but are mostly category theory
and algebra, but has obliged me to prove new
theorems in functional analysis and Euclidean
geometry (!)). ..." [snip] More
here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~thereaderdavid/
(FR Registration date: 9/24/99)

~ Janice

>On Jun 20, 2006, at 10:33 AM, Janice Matchett wrote:
>
>>First, a question and a comment about "the flood":
>>
>>Ah yes, The Flood. Perhaps you can explain...
>>
>>Also, I would like to see an explanation for
>>the lack of flood sediments and erosion at the accepted date of 2350 BC.
>>
>>At this date we have a lot of archaeological
>>evidence, but no evidence of such a flood. We
>>have sites in the western US which cross-cut
>>this time period, with continuity of native
>>culture, mtDNA, artifact styles, fauna and
>>flora, soil deposition, etc. Where is the evidence for a flood?
>>
>>Particularly telling is a continuity of mtDNA
>>from a site in southern Alaska dated about
>>10,000 to living descendants in California.
>>
>>To argue against the scientific data which
>>fails to support the flood, you have to toss a
>>huge percentage of all knowledge out the
>>window. For example, geology would have to go,
>>as would biology, archaeology, sedimentology, genetics, and a bunch more.
>>
>>(We'll be back in the Stone Age pretty quickly
>>at that rate. Whoops, no. The Stone Age would have to go too. Its too old.)
>>
>><http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1652400/posts?page=63#63>63
>>posted on 06/20/2006 11:49:15 AM EDT by
>><http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1652400//~coyoteman/>Coyoteman
>>
>><http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1652400/posts>CREATION
>>AND EVOLUTION - A LAY PASTOR'S PERSPECTIVE
>>Posted on 06/20/2006 10:00:43 AM EDT by
>><http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1652400//~alsimmons/>Al Simmons
>>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1652400/posts [refresh your browser]
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>For those interested, my posts are # 2, 9, 21 here:
>>
>>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1652400/posts?page=2#2
>>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1652400/posts?page=9#9
>>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1652400/posts?page=21#21
>>
>>~ Janice :)
>
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