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Originally Posted by mark  I've held to a YEC for quite some time, and hashed through the issues as well. I have found that Answers in Genesis tends to be very flippant however when dealing with the issue. If we want to redeem the academy (and I think we do) we've got serious work to do in the scientific fields. Mark Noll in his book The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind blasts YEC out of the water, saying how awful it has been for Christian scholarship. There simply are too few scientists doing research in this field. And, to further the dilemma, I don't intend to get a PhD in the natural sciences! |
Noll fails to critique YEC on biblical/theological grounds. He just whines that such people look like fundamentalists and it makes it hard for Christians to be seen as academically and culturally relevant.
The book was okay in some respects but I have a hard time taking Noll's whining (and that's what it is) seriously.