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To: Wallace T.

Also, isn't a term like 100,000 BC anti-Christian, since the Bible tells us that the Earth is but 6,000 years old.
Why would you want to associate Christ with such anti-Bible concepts? Let science have BCE.


39 posted on 07/27/2006 5:28:09 AM PDT by NC28203
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To: NC28203
Also, isn't a term like 100,000 BC anti-Christian

As far back as the church father Augustine, there was a belief that the Genesis narrative of creation was not strictly literal. Neither Popes Pius XII nor John Paul VI regarded an "old earth" as un-Christian, based on their public statements on evolution. Charles Hodge and Benjamin Warfield, conservative Calvinist theologians who were near contemporaries of Darwin, and C.I. Scofield, popularizer of dispensationalism, were not six day/6,000 year advocates.

Certainly, many evangelical and fundamentalist Christians are young earth creationists (YEC). However, to imply that the YEC position is the only one that is orthodox reflects an absence of knowledge of Christian thought on the old earth and evolution issues.

40 posted on 07/27/2006 6:20:13 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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