Although I have a four year degree from a Christian liberal university, it was in Criminal Justice so I had very little dealings with biology, chemistry, ect. Even if I had it would have been from a Christian perspective anyhow, but not sure if it would have been old earth or young earth.
Melindoor writes:
A few years ago I would have scoffed at this statement. Now I suspect you're right. As a Christian I'm appalled by what seems to be going on behind the curtains of evangelical ministry. At least in this country, evangelical Christianity seems (from my point of view) so tied up with anti-intellectualism and a fear of secularism that no lie seems too big to further the cause. In my opinion, no matter how good the ends or how pure the intentions, they never justify the means. Especially if that means duping millions of people to close their eyes to facts and stubbornly cling to a piece of doctrine that they apparently believe Christianity could not survive without.
Interesting points but I see them from the other side of the argument. I think Christians who believe in YEC are woefully ill prepared for a classroom encounter with a professor who might hate Christianity or just might be playing devil's advocate even. I know most of the guys I grew up with, myself included, who attended church, had zero clue why they believed what they believed. The Church has done an abomination to apologetics and about the only time one starts learning and study this stuff, it's on their own time, such as myself now, finally in my early 30's I started caring about why I believed what I do and they may lead to some small changes in my beliefs. But overall, Christian youths, just swim along merrily on their way believing everything they've been taught with no foundation on how to defend it.
I'll now cue the response: "it's hard to defend something that can't be defended". There, I saved everyone allot of time....ha!
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