George Murphy wrote:
> glenn morton wrote:
> >
> > My concern with this is similar to Keith Miller's concern. How many
> > theologically conservative churches have invited Wells to speak and thus
> > spread Unification theology from their own pulpit. Was this fair to those
> > churches? Was this ethical? While the comment is made that this was not
> > 'hidden' neither was it advertised either. I didn't know it until a few
> > weeks ago. I wrote Paul Nelson who said he has known it for a long time and
> > it didn't bother him. If so, what cause and what purpose is being fought
> > for here if ID will equally support islam and any other religiou? Aren't
> > christians called to be light to the world? To Steven MeyerWhat has
> > happened to you guys, Steve? When I knew you at ARCO you wanted to make a
> > difference in christianity. Is Islam and every other religion your goal now?
> >
> > I also have a concern that the so called wedge movement is of no value to
> > Christianity or christian apologetics precisely because it is so broad
> > based that even the Roman Gods could be guilty of designing the universe.
> > See Phil's note below.
>
> Precisely. "The Wedge" & in fact the whole ID movement is motivated by
> religious concerns, regardless of how much its advocates & practitioners may say
> "Nobody here but us philosophers & scientists." & that in itself wouldn't be so
> bad, but it becomes very clear from this example that the religious concern is not
> the cross or justification or really even creation, but design as a tenet of naive
> natural theology.
>
> Shalom,
> George
> George L. Murphy
> gmurphy@raex.com
> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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