Re: paleonet Young Earth Research

["Kenneth A. Monsch" <kmonsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> For paleontologists, being knowledgeable about the science, the main
> risk is making pronouncements about the religious and philosophical
> issues without knowing much about them.  The history of these issues
> is quite informative, but many readily available sources are
> misinformative (e.g., see Gould's review rightly panning the
> theological "history" in Winchester's The Map that Changed the World).

Christian palaeontologists may have it "easier" here, because they know the
faith issues from the inside. Of course, they have it more difficult as
well, if their church is hostile to the science they're doing. But besides
that I would like to recommend anyone the following book to get a good
insight of the various creationism movements from the roots up: "The
Creationists" by Ronald L. Numbers (see
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520083938/002-0491766-2083211?v=glance&n=283155).
As far as I've gone through the book, there is unfortunately nothing on ID
in it, because that movement was too "new" to be included. But I think there
are some books that criticise the Intelligent Design movement, so we can
read about that too.

Ken