Re: request for good library books

Quoting Bill Hamilton <williamehamiltonjr@yahoo.com>:
> ...After I concluded that the geologists are
> right
> about the age of the earth, and realized I'd been lied to by creationists, I
> began to wonder if I had been lied to about common descent as well. So
> opening
> people's minds about the geology can serve to open their minds about common
> descent. In any case, as Davis Young says in "Christianity and the age of
> the
> earth," it's wrong for YEC's to teach a young earth in order to rule out
> evolution. Let each science stand or fall on its own merits.
>

It strikes me how what you just stated above has its symmetrical counterpart in
the "inner strategizing sessions" among YECs. " ... let's give them this book
which isn't outright creationist but will cause them to begin questioning
evolution etc...

If I were to show this email to YEC colleagues here, they would nod knowingly
and declare 'Yes! there's that ancient earth wedge to start them down that
slippery slope to accepting full-fledged evolution.' And they would be right,
wouldn't they? I don't question the sincerity of those here, or the tactics to
try to convey as best we can what seems to be truth. But you have to admit that
the YEC conviction about a warfare model may still be essentially a correct
assessment of the situation. It's just a more covert war in the sense we're
discussing here.

Thanks for the many great suggestions given so far.

--merv

I spilled some spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone. --Steven Wright
Received on Wed Apr 26 15:44:11 2006