Re: Phillip Johnson and the YEC movement

For several years I have argued that the logic of ID is to become a YEC and
that is the implicit them in my chapter in Debating Design ed by Ruse and
Dembski

Sadly the head of the Evangelical Alliance Joel Edwards is supporting this
junket.

Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: <jwburgeson@juno.com>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 8:47 PM
Subject: Phillip Johnson and the YEC movement

> The latest issue of ACTS AND FACTS arrived today. I see that Phillip
> Johnson and Andrew Snelling (of ICR) will be making a joint speaking tour
> in England from 10/26 to 11/13. The tour is being underwritten by Elim
> Churches and several "evangelical alliances."
>
> This issue also features an article by Larry Vardiman on the RATE
> project. It is apparent that the YECs are going to place a lot of
> emphasis on this one. There is planned an 11/5/2005 conference in San
> Diego at the Shadow Mountain Community Church which will mark the start
> of their effort to "prove" a young earth. Both a technical book and a
> nontechnical book are in the works, as well as a video documentary.
>
> The planned title of these works is "THOUSANDS, NOT BILLIONS: Tearing
> Down an Icon of Evolution."
>
> Other young earth evidences in this issue include:
>
> 1. Page 5. Pine needles from the Greenland Ice Core project recovered
> from two miles down; obviously the ice sheet formed "quickly."
>
> 2. Page 5. Unmineralized dino bones containing bone protein have been
> found, refuting the demise of these creatures 65 MY ago.
>
> 3. RATE research on Grand Canyon samples (27 of them)-- substantial
> disagreement in the results -- K-Ar results range from 405 to 2574
> Million years, for example, show that radioisotope dating is fatally
> flawed. The article by Snelling claims that RATE has shown that decay
> rates were accelerated in a global catastrophe.
>
> 4. The usual claim, which I have seen repeated over and over in the 30
> years I've been observing ICR, that there are "thousands of fully
> credentialed scientists" who have become YECs, BASED ON SCIENTIFIC
> EVIDENCES.
>
> 5. YECs are sometimes accused of claiming "rapid evolution," for there is
> only 6000 years available (less than that, actually) after the Flood for
> the Ark inhabitants to expand into the millions of species known today.
> Henry Morris addresses this argument with these words: "The different
> varieties that developed from the original "kinds" after the Flood did
> not "evolve," of course, by mutation or any other evolutionary process.
> They simply diversified ... not evolution, but simple variation."
>
> Burgy
>
> www.burgy.50megs.com
>
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Received on Fri Oct 1 10:42:04 2004