From: "Ken Smith"



Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian





Chris wrote:



> >This word "indoctrinate" is inappropriate, unless you would

> >say we also indoctrinate students with maths and physics and

> >chemistry and so on.



Ken responded:

>

> Of course we indoctrinate students in maths, Chris.

> I hope that every teacher in Australia will thoruoghly indoctrinate

> their students in the belief that, in the decimal system, 1 + 1 = 2.

> And I hope that any student who dares to ask for equal time for the

> proposition that 1 + 1 = 3 will be promptly told to shut up, in

> whatever form of words is approved for use correcting obvious

> errors by students.



> Gladys, I have just bought a good book about creation.

> I don't know where you live, but there should be a branch of Koorong

> not too far away.  Get hold of a copy of "The Message of Creation" by

> David Wilkinson.  It's in the series "The Bible Speaks Today" which is

> highly commended by virtually all evangelical Christians.

> It covers the theme of creation throughout the Bible, not just what

> you read in the first chapter of Genesis.

>

> If, after reading it, you want to delve more deeply into what

> evangelical scholars have written about the relationship between

> science and religion it has a brief Appendix which touches on the main

> issues, and contains ample further references you could follow up,

> most of them published in the last 10 years.

>

> >Fine... this is a statement of faith, shared also by many who

> >accept biological evolution as one of the many natural processes

> >in a created world. Where you run into trouble is in setting up

> >natural processes as a conflict with God's activity.

>

> Gladys, how about reading Genesis 1 and finding out who/what was/is

> responsible for the division between day and night.

> Was it God, or the sun?

> One is a theological description, the other is an ancient scientific

> description.



> Salaam

> Ken Smith

>

> --

> Dr Ken Smith - Christian, husband, unpaid mathematician, skeptic, ...

>   `To be faithful to this word, Christians must take science seriously as

>    belonging to their stewardship and must take seriously what science

>    discovers about the world.' John H. Stek