WJ: Oh my aching sides. I haven't laughed so hard for a long time.
I know it's not really "gentlemanly" to snicker over the misfortunes of others, but mannnnnn. This is just too rich. The creationists have been beating up evolutionary biologists over internal bickering since Gould published "Wonderful Life". It's just too sweet to see the shoe on the other foot.
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Reasons to Believe has kept a low public profile on this matter over the past three-plus years in the hope that the young-earth movement would have both the will and the skill to resolve this matter internally and thereby save itself the humiliation of being corrected by outsiders. We also wanted to keep the matter quiet in order to avoid attracting the attention of hostile unbelievers, for whom Starlight and Time would provide a persuasive example of "Christian incompetence" in the natural sciences, evidence which would aid their attempts to exclude Christian thought from the public arena. Such attention would be most harmful to the young-earth movement, but it would by association also harm the entire church and potentially discredit the church's gospel witness.
(From the article you referenced).
Ah, me. On the up side for creationists, at least they're starting to try and police their own. When a theory is so bad even other creationsists think it stinks, it must be REALLY bad...
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