Re: [asa] Ron Numbers on the persistence of creationism

Mortenson and Sarfati regard it as an unreliable history.

I think on the day of Judgement some will be taken to task for destroying
other people's faith and prevent others from coming to Christ. That is one
reason I have little affection for YEC and increasingly ID.

It also makes me value the fuzzy edges of the Anglicans

Michael
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From: "Ted Davis" <tdavis@messiah.edu>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>; <mrb22667@kansas.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 5:49 PM
Subject: Re: [asa] Ron Numbers on the persistence of creationism

>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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