There is a serious perception problem here which also exists in Britain. Too
many decide what someone else is saying by what they think they must be
saying and not what they are saying.
I have problems with some evangelicals who precieve because I accept
evolution and worse am researching on Darwin and like his work I cannot
believe in "biblical creation" and am on the way to be a wooly liberal who
believes in nothing!
Then there are those who think because I am an evangelical I have to be
literalist, or like a silly Bishop (tautologous?) who asked me how I could
be an evangelical and be a scientist. That was the present Bp of St David's
in 1995. H enearly stopped publication of my tract on "Darwin and Genesis"
in 1991 because he thought it was too conservative!!!
Regards
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "george murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
To: "James Mahaffy" <mahaffy@mtcnet.net>
Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 2:35 AM
Subject: Re: More than TE in ASA
> James Mahaffy wrote:
>
> > Folks,
> >
> > Much as I respect Keith for his obvious Christian witness, I think it
> > good for Weister's voice to be heard among evangelicals. Our reputation
> > among our Christian brothers is equally as important as is our
> > reputation among the scientific community.
>
> Our Christian brothers and sisters include a lot of people who are
> not "Evangelicals" in
> the narrow American sense, and ASA membership is not supposed to be
limited
> to that particular segment of the church. But attempts to make it a more
> seriously ecumenical organization, consistent
> with its Statement of Faith are thwarted by the perception that those with
> views like John Wiester are characteristic of the organization.
>
> > I professionally (when I get
> > time from high teaching loads) study the fossil record (paleoecology of
> > Carboniferous coal-swamps). I am not TE (theistic evolution) nor for
> > that matter YEC (young earth creation) or ID (intelligent design).
> >
> > Like Wiester I worry about the secularizing influence of the
> > evolutionary dogma when it is taught as it often is as accounting for
> > the world and organism originating without a Creator. Obviously TE's
> > and Keith would agree with me.
>
> > It saddens me that too often ASA is seen by evangelicals as no different
> > than a secular science that appears to them as teaches that God had
> > nothing to do with Creation.
>
> Anyone who has gotten this idea has clearly paid no attention to
> what ASA members who accept evolution actually say.
>
>
> Shalom,
>
> George
>
> George L. Murphy
> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
> "The Science-Theology Dialogue"
>
>
>
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