Re: [asa] Question for all the theistic evolutionists

So that must not be the correct test then.
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Bill Hamilton
  To: George Murphy ; David Opderbeck ; John Burgeson (Burgy)
  Cc: asa@calvin.edu
  Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 9:22 AM
  Subject: Re: [asa] Question for all the theistic evolutionists

  George wrote

>I would suggest that the best operational way for Christians to pose the question about the status of such >entities [i.e. a Neanderthal somehow found extant today] is "Is it appropriate to baptize them?"

  Interesting. What criteria would we use to decide whether it's appropriate to baptize them? One possible test would be if they respond to evangelism. But of course that would rule out infant baptism, which both George's and my denomination (EPC) practice.

  Bill Hamilton
  William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
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Received on Sun Mar 25 09:55:37 2007