Re: Racism and YEC (WAS:Four items of possible controversy)

From: gordon brown (gbrown@euclid.colorado.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 18 2003 - 16:23:38 EST

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    On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Michael Roberts wrote:

    > The main problem is that recently "evolutionists " have not been racist but
    > the founder and doyen of YEC has. It is fair to judge him and his movement
    > in the same way as they condemn us, but with a modicum of Christian love and
    > charity which is frequently denied to us apostate Christians who accept that
    > earth is more than 10,000 years old.

    I think that Morris grew up in the South at a time when segregation was
    the norm there. If so, I find it easier to believe that that, rather than
    YECism, was the main influence on his racial views.

    Gordon Brown
    Department of Mathematics
    University of Colorado
    Boulder, CO 80309-0395

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