tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756044786537224705.post8259021014357307172..comments2009-10-08T08:36:04.431+13:00Comments on The Challenge of Creationism: Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15114227629618804566noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756044786537224705.post-73024813447557346122009-10-07T23:30:52.647+13:002009-10-07T23:30:52.647+13:00Great article, clearly a lot of research and thoug...Great article, clearly a lot of research and thought has gone into this. The list of references is amazing and a great resource for anyone who wants to dig deeper into the subject. Many of them are freely available on the web.<br /><br />For myself I was brought up (home schooled even) on young earth creationism (YEC) in my science with mentions of evolution and old earth in disdain. When I read or heard of millions of years etc I would shake my head "whatever". The turning point for me was reading Ken Miller's "Finding Darwin's God" book (referenced above) which enlightened me on the "other perspective" but with awareness of YEC (most of science ignores it). This is a good book for the science side but not the theology. I have read more since then (e.g. Denis Alexander) but I am still working through the complexities in the theology and accept that is necessary.<br /><br />If your exposure to science on origins is limited to creationist sources (e.g. CMI) as it was mine I would highly recommend checking out the references above. You would be surprised how much of what you have been told is inaccurate and/or misleading and the number of myths that circulate (CMI has a page of some these http://creation.com/arguments-we-think-creationists-should-not-use).Alan Christensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17159402046448674185noreply@blogger.com