Mar 11, 2023
It should be said: the human spine is why I stopped believing in creation science, the human spine is the equivalent of playing Jenga with beans with a nuclear power plant inside. No one is that incompetent.
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It should be said: the human spine is why I stopped believing in creation science, the human spine is the equivalent of playing Jenga with beans with a nuclear power plant inside. No one is that incompetent.
The Chronicle of Higher Education covered the founding of TRACS after the federal investigations refused three times to grant them accrediting power. On September 4, 1991, Scott Jaschik wrote:
Education Secretary Lamar Alexander has set off a new debate over accreditation with his decision to grant federal recognition to the Transnational Association of Christian Schools. The association describes itself as “an accrediting agency for Christian institutions which believe in Biblical inerrancy, Biblical authority, the historicity of the first eleven chapters of Genesis including special creation as opposed to evolution, and other doctrines of the Gospel.”
Yes, while diversity was the real impetus, TRACS cloaked it in the religious language of Young Earth Creationism. Are we even surprised?
The Chronicle continued:
The controversy has sparked concern about the way the department manages its reviews of accrediting agencies. Thurston E. Manning, who recently retired as president of the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation, said he was “astonished” by the way Mr. Alexander had handled the case. He said he could not figure out why the Secretary would grant recognition to the group, but added: “Obviously, politics is the first thing that comes to mind.”
Members of Transnational praised Mr. Alexander and said that the criticism of their organization stemmed from hostility in higher education toward Christianity. They added that such hostility was the reason their accrediting group is needed.
Quelle Surprise.
Everything you expect and so much less.
King Saul with David is a great Bible example of this proverb. No doubt many times David ate at Saul's table but Saul grew very jealous of David and wanted to kill him. See 1 Samuel 18:8-12 & 20:1-33.
New scientific evidence is destroying the outdated Darwinian theory of evolution. What is being found will shock you. . .
Creation scientists are wrong (so I think), but some of them are nonetheless admirable. Their aim is to be faithful to the Christian faith and to the Lord; they do their best to do so, often at considerable personal cost. (They don’t, after all, enjoy being called fundamentalist ignoramuses; nor do they take delight in the rest of the ridicule and disapprobation heaped upon them by the scientific establishment.) I happen to think they are mistaken; but their errors, to my mind, are enormously less important than the errors of many of those—the Dawkins and Provines and Sagans of this world, for example—who load abuse upon them. It is vastly more important to be clear that the Lord created the heavens, the earth, and all that they contain, than to know that he didn’t do it 10,000 years ago. I disagree with the creation scientists, and, like most other academics, I don’t relish the scorn and obloquy that goes with being associated with them; but at a deep level I feel much closer to them, both spiritually and intellectually, than to their cultured despisers. Christians who disagree with them should treat them as Christian brothers and sisters who, perhaps through an excess of zeal, err on a point of some importance; but Christians should not treat them as intellectual pariahs, or join in the cultural chorus expressing scorn, contempt, and disdain for them.
Alvin Plantinga