I am VERY glad you feel that way because I, too, am very interested in your
comments as well as others. The very reason for my post in the first place
was because I felt arrogance was in your replies. You have some good
friends on this chatroom, and you could not have if you replied to others
in that vein. What I took for arrogance was really passion for your
position, and that is totally excusable.
I have misjudged you, and for that I apologize.
Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
and do not rely on your own insight.. Pr. 3:5
Ron Chitwood
chitw@flash.net
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> From: Glenn Morton <grmorton@waymark.net>
> To: Stephen Jones <sejones@ibm.net>; Evolution <evolution@calvin.edu>
> Cc: chitw@flash.net
> Subject: Re: Evolution debate
> Date: Thursday, February 26, 1998 9:32 PM
>
> At 06:30 AM 2/27/98 +0800, Stephen Jones wrote:
> >Ron
> >
> >On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 05:47:36 -0600, Ron Chitwood wrote to Glenn Morton:
> >
> >RC>Perhaps this discussion is cutting into the sales of your books,
something
> >>both you and I know is your real agenda.
> >
> >I did not see this until I saw the replies, hence my lateness.
> >
> >I join with others in expressing my strong disapproval of such ad
hominem
> >comments, particularly among Christians.
> >
> >It is particularly disappointing when it isn't true. Glenn has never
pushed
> strongly
> >the sale of his books. Indeed, I have taken him to task in the past for
*not*
> >quoting from his books!
>
> I have been somewhat at a loss as to what to say when I have seen the
> responses to Ron's post. I want say thank everyone for the nice things
that
> have been said about me (but I would assure everyone that I don't see
those
> traits in me), and I want to especially thank Stephen here because he and
I
> have probably run into each other head on more than any other pair on
this
> list. Because of our run ins, this means a lot to me and I thank you for
it.
> I remember when you chastised me for not quoting from my book. That took
> place when there was a guy on the list whose everyother paragraph started
> with "my book say this," or "my book shows that". I don't think that
added
> to the content of the discussion and I didn't want to look like that
fellow.
>
> I would suggest that it is probably time to drop this. While Ron's
argument
> was logically fallacious (an ad hominem) I was not as bothered as
everyone
> else seems to have been. After having been called lots of things over the
> years from "heretic" to "deceptive" to "compromiser' to "atheist" such
> things as questioning my motives doesn't bother me much anymore.
>
> To Ron Chitwood only:
> I would like to say that I really would wish to continue our discussion
> regardless of what you think of me or my ideas. I am not your enemy. In
> order to take the issue of whether or not I want to sell my books out of
> your mind, I will make an offer to you. If you ever want my
> book,Foundation... and upon the promise that you will actually read it, I
> would give it to you for free. In this way you should know that I am
not
> interested in selling my book to you. All you have to do is send me a
note
> saying you want it.
>
> The reason I ask for the promise to read it is that I have found that if
I
> give it away, people don't read it. This offer is open to you anytime you
> want to take me up on it. I have a deep desire to help christianity out
of a
> morass we have fallen into and this can only be done via continued
> discussions and the consideration of other ideas.
>
> with respect,
>
>
>
> glenn
>
> Adam, Apes, and Anthropology: Finding the Soul of Fossil Man
>
> and
>
> Foundation, Fall and Flood
> http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm
>