[asa] billy graham and YEC

In my report on the creation museum, I mentioned that Billy Graham is not a
YEC--something that one of their present exhibits presently implies. (I
brought this to their attention, incidentally, and I hope it might be
altered. They agree that he is not a YEC.)

David Opderbeck then asked whether anyone had evidence of Graham's views on
this. I've seen a few comments in the past, but I found this one today and
thought I'd add it as a footnote to my post about the Museum.

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     "I don't think that there's any conflict at all between science today
and the Scriptures. I think that we have misinterpreted the Scriptures many
times and we've tried to make the Scriptures say things they weren't meant
to say, I think that we have made a mistake by thinking the Bible is a
scientific book. The Bible is not a book of science. The Bible is a book of
Redemption, and of course I accept the Creation story. I believe that God
did create the universe. I believe that God created man, and whether it came
by an evolutionary process and at a certain point He took this person or
being and made him a living soul or not, does not change the fact that God
did create man. ... whichever way God did it makes no difference as to what
man is and man's relationship to God."

Billy Graham: Personal Thoughts of a Public Man, 1997. p. 72-74

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Received on Sat Sep 15 21:18:21 2007