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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
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Subject: Re: Creation-science vs. Christianity
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> Most of the debates about creation/evolution focus on the
> incompatibility between "creation-science" and real science.
> However, a book I came across recently, *Is God a Creationist?  The
> Religious Case Against Creation-Science*, ed. R. M. Frye, makes the
> case that 20th-century creationists' ignorance of their own religious
> and theological tradition is at least as profound as their ignorance
> of science. 

I agree.  Another recent book of interest in this context is *The Meaning
of Creation: Genesis and Modern Science*, by Conrad Hyers (John Knox
Press, Atlanta, 1984).  Hyers is a Professor of Religion at Gustavus
Adolphus College.  I found it a very provocative book.

-- 
"Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from
	religious conviction."  -- Blaise Pascal

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
	Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712   (USnail)
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