RE: [asa] YEC prior to 1950

Ted said:
" A lot of gap people were open to pre-Adamite humans, esp in the mid-19th
century. "

Did they go into detail about what made Adam different from pre-Adamites? Would they also still believe that God made Adam by fiat rather than evolution? I guess they could still be "old Earth" and still be against human evolution?

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Davis [mailto:TDavis@messiah.edu]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 11:19 AM
To: asa@calvin.edu; Dehler, Bernie
Subject: 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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