Re: [asa] Creationism Conference

It is especially disappointing for me to see the disingenuous, at best,
approach used by some advocates for YEC in teaching others. To avoid or
obfuscate the many lines of evidence that support BBT or evolution in a YEC
presentation is highly unfair to others, especially our youth. Further,
to claim, as Ken Ham does in his video, that to not accept the day as 24
hours will cause the "collapse of Christianity" is yet another disquieting
facet to their marketing.

Yesterday, I had lunch with my daughter, who's in college, and she has been
indoctrinated into the anti-evolution camp. When I began to calmly offer
the idea that God uses processes to accomplish His will and that evolution
is a very powerful and logical process, tears began to form in her eyes
because her Dad is, apparently, not the Christian soldier that she hoped he
would be.

Since many of my church friends are YECers, I know they are sincere about
their beliefs and don't deserve to be called liars. Yet some YECers are far
more knowledgeable about science and may deserve such harsh accusation. It
is wiser not to do so, as the reason has now been made obvious.

My personal request is to get more people here, and some seekers of truth
within the YEC camp, to tackle the literal claims of M-Genesis. My attempts
to get people interested in taking the ideas serious seems to fail, though I
still await arguments that are logical against those claims.

If Genesis was an eye-witness account, or a vision of what actually
happened, then it should be concordant with most of mainstream science,
especially the sciences that enjoy a confluence of evidence supporting their
theories.

A plausible literal view is all that is necessary to get many out of the YEC
rut, IMO.

Coope

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Received on Mon Jun 23 13:40:01 2008