Re: [asa] Rubber Meeting Road -- My Kid in Public School

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From: "James Mahaffy" <Mahaffy@dordt.edu>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [asa] Rubber Meeting Road -- My Kid in Public School

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> --
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> James Mahaffy (mahaffy@dordt.edu) Phone: 712 722-6279
> 498 4th Ave NE
> Biology Department FAX : 712
> 722-1198
> Dordt College, Sioux Center IA 51250-1697
>
>>>> On 1/6/2007 at 12:56 AM, in message
> <004001c7315f$f32aefc0$17f2cdd9@D9D1ZJ1J>,
> "Michael Roberts" <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
>> This makes manifest the wickedness and falsity of YEC, whereby false
> views
>> are introduced into the church and then allowed to grow causing
> friction and
>> division.
>
> Lets not be so quick to say the pastor and church are teaching lies. I
> suspect they
> are opposing a Godless theory of origins that see taught in the schools
> and to their children.
>
> Michael, I just don't think the theistic evolutionists among us have
> been writing to the audience of
> the church laity (by and large). So what options do they have when
> they look for a theistic alternative
> to a teaching that origins occurred without God.

How hard are they looking? When I wrote my 1st book, designed for
non-specialists & with the subtitle "A Christian Course in Creation,
Evolution and Salvation," I thought it would be good if a local Christian
bookstore would carry it. They agreed to take a look at it but then
declined to carry it because "we don't believe that people came from apes or
alligators or anything like that." The language might be odd (it was the
first I'd heard of the alligator theory of human origins) but the attitude
is, I'm afraid, not unusual.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

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