As I stated before on previous posts, Hayward has dedicated the whole 2nd
chapter in CREATION AND EVOLUTION to this. To quote pp 13. "But there are
other biologists who go a great deal further, and think Darwinism is
worthless. These are not creationists. They are evolutionists who
consider that Darwin's theory cannot be made to fit the facts, no matter
how much biologists might modify it.
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