Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!utastro!bill From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) Newsgroups: net.origins,net.religion Subject: Re: Creation-science vs. Christianity Message-ID: <524@utastro.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 09:16:13 EDT Article-I.D.: utastro.524 Posted: Sun Aug 11 09:16:13 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 03:06:34 EDT References: <111@gargoyle.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX Lines: 21 Xref: linus net.origins:2093 net.religion:6954 > 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) {allegra,ihnp4}!{ut-sally,noao}!utastro!bill (uucp) bill%utastro.UTEXAS@ut-sally.ARPA (ARPANET)