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dwise1
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Message 13 of 18 (369555)
12-13-2006 3:09 PM
Reply to: Message 9 by Brad McFall
11-21-2006 4:38 PM


Re: Re:storing the revival vial
"Brad McFall" writes:
Henry Morris wrote before his death,
quote:
There has, indeed, been a remarkable revival of strict creationism (as distinct from theistic evolutionism or progressive creationism) in the past three decades
.
The Revival of Modern Creationism (II: ICR, For Such a Time as This) | The Institute for Creation Research
Ah, so then this "revival" of which you speak was the creation of "creation science" in the wake of Epperson vs Arkansas (1968), which led to the striking down of the "monkey laws" that had banned the teaching of evolution in public schools since the 1920's.
Before this "revival", creationists, secure in having defeated evolution decades before, compiled and published their "scientific evidences" for their literalist beliefs (ie, young-earth, Noahic Flood, no evolution) for their own consumption. As such, these works were filled with blatant fundamentalist Christian wording and Biblical references, as one would expect.
But Epperson vs Arkansas changed all that. Now it was no longer lawful to ban the teaching of evolution for purely religious reasons. So the creationists created "creation science" (AKA "scientific creationism") as a deliberate deception to circumvent the courts. They took those blatantly religious "pre-revival" writings and superficially changed them by removing all the explicit religious references and presented them as "purely scientific" and thus claimed falsely that they were opposing evolution on purely scientific grounds and for purely scientific reasons.
So this "revival" was simply the start of the "creation science" deception.
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Message 15 of 18 (369641)
12-13-2006 8:08 PM
Reply to: Message 14 by Brad McFall
12-13-2006 4:24 PM


Re: Restoring the revival vial
Then you have no comment, as evidenced by your non sequitur.
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Message 17 of 18 (369717)
12-14-2006 11:07 AM
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12-14-2006 7:23 AM


Re: Re:what is the question??
Do you always use non sequitur? You must be rather desperate to avoid actual discussion.

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