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- From: cotera@woods.ulowell.edu
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Evolution on Christian TV
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.142943.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 19:29:43 GMT
- References: <1993Jan13.052936.7110@panix.com>
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- In article <1993Jan13.052936.7110@panix.com>, arandia@panix.com (Joel Arandia) writes:
- >
- > Well, watching tv late one night, I saw Pat Robertson reviewing the
- > year's top stories. I was surprised to see him cover the news on "the new
- > dinosaur". I really didn't catch the whole thing. But it is my guess
- > that Pat Robertson supports the sciences and not creationism.
-
- I'm almost 100% positive that Pat Robertson is neither an evolutionist nor a
- theistic evolutionist.
-
- > Why? Because later that evening I happened to catch "The World
- > Tomorrow" by the same people who brought you "The Plain Truth" magazine.
-
- Pat Robertson and the people from "The World Tomorrow" are not of the same
- religion.
-
- > They said that "Many people in America that believe, wrongly, that the Earth
- > is only thousands of years old." They went on to say that sciences tells
- > us the nature of God. And the Bible tells us the Word of God. Faith is not
- > a substitute for science. And vice versa. They even quoted Hawkin's
- > "mind of God" statement.
- > Pretty cool stuff huh? It's very comforting to see religious figures
- > in support of science. I am aware that the Roman Catholics openly accept
- > and support study of evolution. And that Episcopalians, Methodists, and
- > Presbyterians also accept "theistic" evolution.
- >
- > joel d. arandia
-
- It's interesting to note that a Gallup poll, either from '91 or '92, said that
- something like 80% of Americans don't believe in evolution.
- --Ray Cote
-