RE: [asa] Question for all the theistic evolutionists

Phil wrote:
> As a TE, I debate both atheists and YECs (and OECs) online.
> When a typical atheist starts in on me from a creation angle,
> it throws them for a loop when I state my TE position. I end
> up having more leverage with science and statistical odds.
> Several atheists have mentioned that I am the smartest
> Christian they've met, which is darn scary.
>

Are you debating evolution/creation or atheism itself? From what you said it
sounds like creation.

glenn
They're Here: The Pathway Papers
Foundation, Fall, and Flood
Adam, Apes and Anthropology

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Jones [mailto:pcjones5@tx.rr.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 9:12 PM
> To: Glenn Morton
> Cc: asa@calvin.edu
> Subject: Re: [asa] Question for all the theistic evolutionists
>
>

> ---- Glenn Morton <glennmorton@entouch.net> wrote:
> > I won't be here long, but this is the best place to get a question
> > answered. Many of you know that over the past 10 years, I have
> > struggled with whether or not to become an atheist. I now
> am totally
> > past that point having come out of the struggle with some
> really great
> > arguments against atheism, which I have used on the internet
> > successfully. But, in all this, I have thought about a YEC
> complaint
> > against us TE's. And that is what my question is about.
> >
> > 1. Why is it that I so rarely see theistic evolutionists directly
> > confronting atheists on the internet when they dis our religion? 2.
> > Has anyone engaged in a direct internet debate on a forum against
> > atheism or against an atheist? (if so, where is it?) 3. are
> we really,
> > as my friend Wil Provine suggests, merely practical atheists? (a
> > people whose religion makes no real difference to the intellectual
> > climate of society?) 3a alternatively, are we merely the lapdogs of
> > the atheists, who use us, as Phil Johnson suggests, but who don't
> > respect us (I guess are we a one night stand for the atheists
> > pleasure?)
> >
> > I will not debate, I am interested in the responses.
> >
> > glenn
> > They're Here: The Pathway Papers
> > Foundation, Fall, and Flood
> > Adam, Apes and Anthropology
> >
> > http://home.entouch.net/dmd/dmd.htm
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Received on Fri Feb 23 22:14:57 2007