[Phys-L] Re: Another attack on Evolution

[Larry Smith <larry.smith@SNOW.EDU>]

At 2:01 PM -0600 1/19/06, John M Clement wrote:
> Incidentally Mormonism was born in a Protestant area of the US, and
> the Book of Mormon reflects the prevailing prejudices at the time it
> was written.  As a result it is not surprising that they might side
> with the fundamentalist wing.  There are also some ultra-orthodox Jews
> that also take the fundamentalist point of view.

Fundamentalist right-wing Christians do not want to claim Mormonism as part
of their own.  Mormons are not Christians according to the fundamentalists.
But, of course, Mormons claim to be Christians.

Utah Sentator Buttars' bill does not represent any kind of official
statement from the Mormon church and
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1%2C1249%2C635177399%2C00.html
talks a bit about Mormons' (and other religions in Utah) views of the bill
and evolution.

Larry
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