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- From: waynebro@juliet.caltech.edu (Broughton, Wayne Jeremy)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Future evolution of Creationism
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 22:27 PST
- Organization: California Institute of Technology
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- References: <1993Jan12.183311.9524@aurora.com> <1993Jan13.142610.16361@medtron.medtronic.com> <15JAN199303110854@juliet.caltech.edu> <1762@tdat.teradata.COM>
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- In article <1762@tdat.teradata.COM>, swf@tools3teradata.com
- (Stan Friesen) writes...
- >In article <15JAN199303110854@juliet.caltech.edu>, waynebro@juliet.caltech.edu
- (Broughton, Wayne Jeremy) writes:
- >|> In article <1993Jan13.142610.16361@medtron.medtronic.com>,
- >|> ds0007@medtronic.COM (Dale Skiba) writes...
- >|> >1) The central belief of Christian Fundamentalist Creationists is
- >|> > that the world is on a downward spiral of moral decay. (This
- >|> > really does seem to have alot truth to it.)
- >|>
- >|> Not the ones I know. The central belief of *Christian* Fundamentalist
- >|> Creationists is that Jesus is the Son of God who died to save them,
- >|> as described in the Bible. (****)
- >
- >No, that is the central belief of all Christians.
- >#1 above certainly does seem to be one of the primary tenets of those sects
- >that feel Creationism to be necessary to thier faith.
- >
- >Now whether it is *the* central distinguishing feature is a different
- question ...
- >
- I agree that (****) is the central belief of all Christians. In particular,
- it is the central belief of Christian Creationists, as I stated above.
- I also agree that #1 is one of the primary tenets of Fundamentalists, but
- not their "central" belief; it is also believed by many others, I would
- suspect. I would have thought the obvious "central *distinguishing*
- feature" of Creationists is that they believe in Creationism... :-)
-
- Again, referring to people in my experience (and my own erstwhile experience),
- most Creationists are such *because* they are (Biblical literalist)
- Christians; not the other way around.
-
- Wayne.
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-
- Wayne J. Broughton Take the road less travelled by.
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