On Fri, 29 Sep 1995 11:17:57 -0500 you wrote:
>I step into a discussion between Glenn and Stephen:
>
>GM>Even today there are some YEC's who hold to geocentrism...
>
>SJ>Who are they? None of the major YEC books that I have read
>embrace geocentricism.<<
SC>Ron Numbers mentions a fringe group of YECs who have held to
geocentrism.
>The Institute for Creation Research a result of the union of the Creation
>Research Society (a group ofscientists led by Henry Morris) and the
>Bible-Science Association that published the Bible-Science Newsletter which
>"occaisionally provided a platform for individuals on the fringes of the
>creationist movement, such as those who questioned the heliocentric theory
>and who believed that Einstein's theory of relativity 'was invented in order
>to circumvent the evidence that the earth is at rest'".
>R. Numbers, Science 218:538-44, 1982.
Thanks. There may have once been "a fringe group of YECs who have held
to geocentrism" but the ICR's major spokespersons today (eg. Morris,
Gish,
Parker, etc) don't hold it.
God bless.
Stephen
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