Re: paleonet Faith and skepticism

[John F Bratton <jbratton@xxxxxxxx>]

To grossly oversimplify, the point at which American creationists chose the
"wrong track" was approximately 1955-1965.  At this time, two related but
very different books were published.

The "right track" book was Bernard Ramm's "The Christian View of Science
and Scripture (1955)," which suggested several possible interpretations of
Genesis that could be reconciled with modern science.  The modern science
part was heavily informed by Larry Kulp, a pioneer of isotope geochemistry
and geochronology at Columbia and a Wheaton College grad.

The "wrong track" book (now in its zillionth printing) was "The Genesis
Flood (1960)," by Morris and Whitcomb, which was written partially in
response to Ramm's book.  It eventually led to the establishment in 1970 of
the Institute for Creation Research--and the rest, as they say, is history.

-John Bratton

P.S.  Thanks to John Suppe at Princeton for pointing out Ramm's much
neglected book to me.




                                                                                                                                 
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Dear Bill,

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I think the trouble with creationists is they are on the wrong track
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