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At 11:24 AM -0600 3/1/00, David Ward wrote:

For purposes of discussion on this List,
is a creationist someone who

a) is a Deist only
b) believes in a 6 day (144hr) creation event
c) believes the Bible is inerrant
d) attends church regularly
e) rejects scientific naturalism
f) is a professing Christian
g) some of the above
h) all of the above?


Dr. David Ward
Dept. of Chemistry & Physics
UNU#3160
Union University
1050 Union University Dr.
Jackson, TN 38305


As someone who grew up and went through the Tennessee public school
system, I'd say (just off the top of my head) that the 'creationist'
label that Hugh Haskell is using so glibbly can (and should) be
applied to anyone who did not oppose Tennessee's ban on the teaching
of evolution.

Scope's was CONVICTED of violating that ban and the legal restriction
was not removed until fairly recently. In the '60's it was still in
force. Our HS bio teacher had attended a North Carolina institution
to get his advanced degree in Bio and could only 'talk around' his
research on little lizards that grew up in separated environments. He
couldn't use the evil 'E' word.

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