Gordon Brown wrote:
> If we agree with the YEC claim that equates inerrancy and YEC, then it
> seems to me that we are unwittingly promoting YEC in the Christian
> community.
>
> Benjamin Warfield, famous as a defender of inerrancy, who introduced the
> use of the word inerrancy to describe his position, was not a YEC. James
> Orr, one of the main contributors to The Fundamentals, was not a YEC. The
> International Council on Biblical Inerrancy, although tolerant of YEC, was
> perceived as being uncomfortable with the YEC position since it gave
> critics of YEC the major role in its discussion of science.
>
> The current YEC flood theory has a lineage traceable to Ellen G. White's
> writings. To defend this, YEC's have resorted to giving very bizarre
> interpretations to scripture passages that appear to conflict with their
> theory. This is not the approach that one usually associates with
> inerrancy.
>
> Given that some of the strongest proponents of inerrancy reject YEC, it
> seems that to equate inerrancy with YEC involves exchanging their
> understanding of what that term means for a caricature of it.
>
> Gordon Brown
> Department of Mathematics
> University of Colorado
> Boulder, CO 80309-0395
>
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 PHSEELY@aol.com wrote:
>
> > My experience with YEC's is that they have felt uneasy about "not believing
> > the Bible." In reality, they have been so indoctrinated and emotionally taken
> > with the extra-biblical doctrine of an "absolutely inerrant Bible" that this
> > is what they really find peace with when they become YEC's.
Gordon,
thank you for this much needed correction regarding biblical inerrancy!
Generally, it tends to be confused with a naive literalism. By the way,
some of the authors of the Fundamentals did not reject evolution, while
holding to biblical inerrancy.
Peter
-- Dr Peter Ruest, <pruest@dplanet.ch> CH-3148 Lanzenhaeusern, Switzerland Biochemistry - Creation and evolution ----------------------------------------------------------------- Creative providence in biology (Gen.2:3): "..the work which God created (in order) to (actively) evolve it" -----------------------------------------------------------------
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