From: Ted Davis (TDavis@messiah.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 18 2003 - 14:25:05 EST
Actually, ted isn't trying to be irenic, as much as he is trying to be
accurate about what current creationists are teaching. Morris is certainly
still a major influence, but when the typical Christian goes to a
creationist website, it's likely to be answersingenesis, and when a church
invites a creationist speaker, it's much more likely to be Ken Ham than
Henry Morris here in 2003.
I don't have any disagreements with what Michael writes, nor do I disagree
with the anger he expresses toward such views. But I would add, that I
could multiply his examples of YEC teachings on race with examples taken
from liberal Protestants and secular evolutionists of the late 19th and
early 20th centuries. It was almost entirely liberal Protestants, not
fundamentalists, who embraced eugenics (for example). I'll have some lovely
examples of this kind of virulence in my book, whenever I finally finish it.
One doesn't need to look far to locate racists--they've grown on many
varities of trees, ancient, modern, and otherwise.
ted
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