RE: [asa] Darwin's anti-slavery Sacred Cause

For me it's easy. Do an honest, diligent search for answers, determine what
is right, and advocate for it. The kind of publicity we could get by taking
a bold stance is immeasurable. We chide ID advocates (okay, some of us are
IDers) for ducking the hard question about earth age and we can't face it
ourselves. A simple, official statement disavowing "creation science" as
detrimental to the faith would suffice.

Dick Fischer, GPA president

Genesis Proclaimed Association

"Finding Harmony in Bible, Science and History"

www.genesisproclaimed.org

-----Original Message-----
From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of Schwarzwald
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 11:25 AM
To: asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: [asa] Darwin's anti-slavery Sacred Cause

While I have no sympathy for the YEC view, I think quite a lot of damage has
been done by secularists who have happily insisted that one cannot both
accept evolution and at the same time believe in God, much less
Christianity, in the desire to use evolution and science in general as a
stick to beat religion with. Unfortunately, many have shown that if they
have to make such a false choice, they won't pick what secularists hoped
they would.

Until more TEs realize that Christians in general - not just YECs - are
attacked by secularists as being fundamentally 'anti-science', their impact
will be limited. Denouncing YECs is not enough, and will never be enough. A
fight has to be opened against people who insist that evolution is not
compatible with God - or better yet, against those who argue that teleology
does not and cannot exist in nature, much less evolution.

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Dick Fischer <dickfischer@verizon.net>
wrote:

"A recent Pew survey found that fewer than 10 percent of evangelical
Christians believe life evolved through natural selection. Secular Americans
were the only respondents who voiced majority support for the theory."

Truly sad. YECs have done there fowl damage while we lack the courage to
speak out. If ASA can't take a stand I guess we have to leave it to good
old reliable secular Americans. Maybe we can generate more of them.

Dick Fischer, GPA president

Genesis Proclaimed Association

"Finding Harmony in Bible, Science and History"

www.genesisproclaimed.org

-----Original Message-----
From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of Jack Haas
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 10:21 AM
To: ASA list
Subject: [asa] Darwin's anti-slavery Sacred Cause

This carefully researched work takes a new twist on Darwin. It is one book
worth
reading out of the torrent that is appearing.
JWH
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Some Christians Protest Darwin's Birthday. Is Their Antagonism Misplaced?

Not everyone is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth.
Some are protesting. A Christian ministry called Answers in Genesis is
holding anti-Darwin conferences on the East and West coasts this month,
aimed at helping Americans "understand that Darwinian evolution is wrong and
that it has undermined the Christian faith and has fueled social ills like
racism and abortion." Faith-based opposition to Darwin is hardly consigned
to the religious fringe. A recent Pew survey found that fewer than 10
percent of evangelical Christians believe life evolved through natural
selection. Secular Americans were the only respondents who voiced majority
support for the theory.

A new book, Darwin's Sacred Cause, argues that Christian antagonism toward
Darwin is misplaced. Acclaimed Darwin biographers Adrian Desmond and James
Moore portray a Christian Darwin who was driven by his faith-based
opposition to slavery to prove the common origin of the human race. A theory
of common human decency, Darwin believed, would undermine a key precept of
the slave trade: that blacks comprise an inferior race separate from
whites.... (Interview with Moore)

US News & World Report
Full Story at
<http://www.usnews.com/blogs/god-and-country/2009/02/13/charles-darwin-chris
tian.html>
<http://www.usnews.com/blogs/god-and-country/2009/02/13/charles-darwin-chris
tian.html>
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