From my Net-friend Mark:

Many Christians do not believe in Cretinism … er … Creationism. I quote former Anglican Archbishop, and now Governor General, Peter Hollingworth in the Forward to Ian Plimer’s ‘Telling Lies For God’ (Random House: Sydney, 1994)

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p. xi

I would agree with Professor Plimer that creation science does not help this process because it is anti-science and deserves to be criticised on these grounds.

But in abroader religious and cultural sense, it also tends to promote conflict in students’ minds. If creationists argue that the genesis account of creation is to be taken literally anbd that accordingly, science is wrong, then empirically minded students, when persuaded by the general theory of evolution, are very likely to conclude that the Bible must correspondingly be wrong.

Thus instead of offering dialogue between Biblical faith and evolutionary science and then seeking a contemporary understanding of creation as a dynamic and evolving process, there is likely to be further estrangement between groups of people ion our culture.

If creation ‘science’ gains a further hold in our school curricula under the guise of science, the teachings of the Christian church will be discredited by more and more thoughtful people, notwithstanding THE FACT THAT THIS IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF MAINSTREAM THEOLOGY.

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