RE: [asa] YEC prior to 1950

Bernie,

A lot of gap people were open to pre-Adamite humans, esp in the mid-19th
century. David Livingstone has written about this more than once. Reuben
Torrey of BIOLA, whom Rimmer admired (he enrolled for a semester at BIOLA
just to study with Torrey), endorsed pre-Adamites, and implied that it was
their sin that might have led to the pre-Adamite degradation of the earth.

Obviously, this idea was not heretical at the time, though I imagine that
AIG and other creationists today would have run Torrey out of town on a
rail. It's ironic that Rimmer, in many ways an archetypical creationist,
wouldn't have been able to join the CRS, owing to his adherence to the "gap"
model. Of course, that's not really an historical point--if he were alive
today, he's almost certainly be an itinerant speaker for AIG or ICR. But,
they'd make sure he had his PhD first.

Ted

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Received on Mon Aug 25 14:19:48 2008