Re: Re: paleonet Not only in the USA do creationsist/IDs abound amongst Christians

[Dee Ann Cooper <deeanncooper@xxxxxxxxx>]

actually, i have been invited to local Roman Catholic
Schools here in Southeast Texas to talk about
evolution.  i think it is important to remember that
I.D., purports itself to be the solution to the
Creationism/Evolution debate.  I.D. is neither one or
the other ... it's just bunk.

--- Bill Chaisson/Deirdre Cunningham
<chaisson@netacc.net> wrote:

> >How about lightening up a bit?
> 
> Professor Benjamini,
> 
> Unfortunately the evangelical Christian tradition
> includes nothing 
> analogous to the Talmudic tradition of debate and
> discussion about 
> the details of religious writing.  The fact that you
> have been 
> invited to speak about fossils and evolution within
> the "religious 
> educational system" in Israel may be due to this
> Jewish tradition of 
> analysis.  Yes?
> 
> I am unaware of any speaker being invited to an
> American religious 
> school to present evolution (unless it was to serve
> as a living straw 
> man).  Evangelical Christians are all about dogma
> and the dogma is 
> derived from what they call a "literal
> interpretation" (oxymoron 
> that) of Scripture.
> 
> At this moment I happen to be listening a public
> radio program called 
> "Fresh Air".  The guest is Bart Ehrman, a former
> evangelical 
> Christian who is religion scholar.  His life of
> scholarship has 
> caused him to reject the received belief that the
> Bible is the "word 
> of God".  Rather he has recognized the Bible for
> what it is: an 
> accumulation of stories and dogma collected somewhat
> haphazardly and 
> translated rather freely.
> 
> All best,
> Bill
> -- 
> _____________________________
> William P. Chaisson
> Adjunct Assistant Professor
> Dept. Earth & Environmental Sciences
> University of Rochester
> Rochester, New York  14627
> 607-387-3892
> 
> 


Dee Ann Cooper, BS, MS, PG
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