Well, the gauntlet has now been thrown down, so to speak. We shall see what shall happen next.
What happened is this: There is an Answers in Genesis seminar coming up next month and people from my church are putting out feelers to see if there is enough interest in going. I received the e-mail this afternoon.
For those of you who are not familiar with Answers in Genesis, the people who run it are young earth creationists. But it is not just evolution they are going after; when I popped over to their website I noticed that their next goal is to "reclaim" astronomy. Huh? Are Galileo and Copernicus to be overthrown as well? After all the Bible is quite clear on the matter--Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, not the earth. Dear God, I thought the matter was settled 500 years ago. Even the Vatican belatedly apologized to Galileo, not that it does much good now. And after they "reclaim" astronomy, what next? Well, physics will have to go. And chemistry, because obviously the rates at which atoms decay are all wrong. Which means that nuclear wastes and contamination are not the long-term danger that the experts have been saying they are. You see, it is all a big miscalculation by atheistically-minded scientists who failed to see that the answers were right under their noses--in Genesis.
This would almost be funny except that we have seen what happens when these kind of people come to power. Think the Taliban in Afghanistan. There was a time when the Muslim world was known for its universities, for its sciences, for its learning, while Europe floundered in the Dark Ages following the collapse of the Roman empire. And why did the Roman empire, which had endured for hundreds of years under varying forms of government, collapse so soon after the rise of Christianity, to the point where it took centuries to regain what had been lost? The Age of Faith--and ignorance. That was Europe prior to the Renaissance. Now it is the Muslim world that has fallen behind--and why?
Anyway I sent a short e-mail back saying that I would not be attending the AIG seminar. I said that that in the interests of peace it was best that I did not go because I do not agree with what they are teaching and I hoped that we could continue to focus on areas that we did agree upon and agree to disagree on the other. Now it is up to them to decide how to respond.
What happened is this: There is an Answers in Genesis seminar coming up next month and people from my church are putting out feelers to see if there is enough interest in going. I received the e-mail this afternoon.
For those of you who are not familiar with Answers in Genesis, the people who run it are young earth creationists. But it is not just evolution they are going after; when I popped over to their website I noticed that their next goal is to "reclaim" astronomy. Huh? Are Galileo and Copernicus to be overthrown as well? After all the Bible is quite clear on the matter--Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, not the earth. Dear God, I thought the matter was settled 500 years ago. Even the Vatican belatedly apologized to Galileo, not that it does much good now. And after they "reclaim" astronomy, what next? Well, physics will have to go. And chemistry, because obviously the rates at which atoms decay are all wrong. Which means that nuclear wastes and contamination are not the long-term danger that the experts have been saying they are. You see, it is all a big miscalculation by atheistically-minded scientists who failed to see that the answers were right under their noses--in Genesis.
This would almost be funny except that we have seen what happens when these kind of people come to power. Think the Taliban in Afghanistan. There was a time when the Muslim world was known for its universities, for its sciences, for its learning, while Europe floundered in the Dark Ages following the collapse of the Roman empire. And why did the Roman empire, which had endured for hundreds of years under varying forms of government, collapse so soon after the rise of Christianity, to the point where it took centuries to regain what had been lost? The Age of Faith--and ignorance. That was Europe prior to the Renaissance. Now it is the Muslim world that has fallen behind--and why?
Anyway I sent a short e-mail back saying that I would not be attending the AIG seminar. I said that that in the interests of peace it was best that I did not go because I do not agree with what they are teaching and I hoped that we could continue to focus on areas that we did agree upon and agree to disagree on the other. Now it is up to them to decide how to respond.
