>I believe it is the hubris shown by some on this forum that turns off
>many thinking Christian nonscientists and keeps them from
>listening to those who see no biblical problem in adopting, lock,
>stock and barrel, the whole naturalistic evolutionary scheme --
>because the ungodly have used it so often to declare the end of
>theism (aside from the clear fact that the Darwinian idea is not even
>hinted at in Scripture). They use it to proclaim the ascendancy of
>Man [et al Carl Sagan: "God is not necessary; all that was originally
>necessary were the Laws." -- paraphrase].
And that is exactly why we as Christians should not abandon the playing
field. If we turn turtle, or subscribe to Henry Morris or Phil Johnson,
we just hand over credibility to those scientists who "know better." Further
than that we embolden them. I believe we have a data-driven religion vastly
superior to all the pretenders. (Okay, some of us don't need data, but some
do.) Data-driven, that is, if we know where to look and aren't afraid
to abandon obsolete methodologies.
Dick Fischer
THE ORIGINS SOLUTION
http://www.orisol.com