Re: [asa] E.O. Wilson "Baptist No More"

What I mean is that many clergy, especially in mainline churches, "accept"
evolution just because they've been told that it's true, but know little or
nothing about the science that's involved. & questions about creation &
evolution play little if any role in their theology - & a fortiori in their
preaching & teaching - because what's essential about Christianity is
salvation & sanctification. Thus they give their congregations little
instruction about these matters & are ill-prepared to answer questions about
them. Their attitude is, "Sure, it's OK to accept evolution" but they don't
realize that there are serious theological issues raised by evolution beyond
the elementary question of whether or not early Genesis has to be read
literally.

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

----- Original Message -----
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To: "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [asa] E.O. Wilson "Baptist No More"

Quoting George Murphy <gmurphy@raex.com>:
> ... & the reason clergy
> don't have any problems with evolution is often because they don't really
> understand it & don't take the trouble to learn.

If you meant that the way it sounded, then I'm curious to see how you would
expand on this. Was this about their avoidance of the *problem* of
dealing
with it at all? The context suggests this, but I just wanted to be sure.

--Merv

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