I don't agree with Merv's general observation about YEC hostility to Ron's
work. I know several of the YECs who are written about in the book, and all
of them as far as I know agree that Ron was completely accurate and fair in
his descriptions of their ideas, activities, and lives. Quite a few
Adventists, however, are angry with Ron about a different book--his
biography of Ellen White--for reasons Ron expresses in this interview.
As for Ron's own loss of faith, brought about partly (as he discusses here
and elsewhere) by his growing disillusionment with his YEC background, I
myself would put more blame on the YECs for that one. As he says, he never
saw another view presented fairly to him. That's the usual way things work
in that community, IMO. It's yet one more reason why we at Messiah take a
multiple models approach to origins issues. We don't tell our students what
they have to believe; we respect what they believe (which varies a great
deal from person to person), tell them what we think individually (we don't
think anything specific collectively or officially), and show them various
ways to relate science and Christian faith. We let them to the thinking and
weighing; we do the providing of information, but much more broadly than Ham
and company.
Ted
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