Actually, these figures are irrelevant. Historically, true Christianity
has ALWAYS been in the minority. The 65% figure you quoted actually
surprises me. I never thought it was that high. To quote from our Lord
in Matt. 7:13-14 "...wide is the gate that leads to destruction....narrow
is the gate that leads to life...." You and I both see that daily all
around us.
Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth
shall make you free. John 8:32
Ron Chitwood
chitw@flash.net
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> From: Glenn R. Morton <grmorton@waymark.net>
> To: Ron Chitwood <chitw@flash.net>; EVOLUTION@calvin.edu
> Subject: Re: Growing problems?????
> Date: Friday, June 05, 1998 8:42 PM
>
> At 09:11 AM 6/5/98 -0500, Ron Chitwood wrote:
> >>>>>I simply don't see this mass flocking of biologists and geologists
away
> >from evolution that creationists have claimed has been occurring for
many
> >years. If it is occurring, then why don't we see universities teaching
> >anti-evolution?<<<
> >
> >Oh, it is occurring. Since 1964, when THE GENESIS FLOOD came out, an
> >increasing amount of anti-Darwin literature has become available until
its
> >now flooding the market. The continent has never accepted Darwinism the
> >way that U.S. Scientists have, and it seems like more and more
anti-Darwin
> >literature is from people that are not creationists, to begin with. Our
> >Universities are 'ruled' by older professors who were Darwinists in
their
> >youth, but as death takes its inevitable toll our colleges stance will
> >change, too. After all, as you of all people should be cognizant of, it
> >takes time. Speaking of time, your stance seems to be mentioned in
Eccl.
> >9:11 "....but time and chance happeneth to them all."
>
> I agree with you that there is lots of anti-darwinist literature. What I
> disagree with is that it is a growing group of people accepting
> anti-darwinism. I don't see very many non-christians taking on
evolution.
> "In 1963, 65 percent of Americans believed the Bible was literally true.
> This figure fell to 38 percent by 1978. the proportion of
fundamentalists
> hovered between 37 and 39 percent between 1978 and 1984, but has begun to
> inch down again since then [down to 34 percent in 1985, and 31 percent in
> 1989].'"~George Gallup and Jim Castelli, The People's Religion (New
York:
> Macmillan 1989), pp 60-61 cited by Edward T. Babinski, Leaving the Fold
> (Amherst: Prometheus Books, 1995) p. 22
>
> Since the fundamentalists are the ones who believe that the Bible is
> historical and believe that evolution is false, and they are decreasing
in
> number. Where is this upsurge in anti-evolutionists? Can you document it
by
> means of non christian books?
>
> glenn
>
> Adam, Apes and Anthropology
> Foundation, Fall and Flood
> & lots of creation/evolution information
> http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm