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by Alec Muffett

BBC: Would you Adam and Eve it?

[news.bbc.co.uk]

A teachers’ union has said it is alarmed by an increase in lessons which teach that Adam and Eve was the literal truth, rather the fable which science believes it to be. The rise in creationism is not just an American phenomenon.

For many British people, belief in a six-day creation seems to be one of those incomprehensibly American quirks, like beef jerky and pledging allegiance to the flag. But a large and growing number of British Christians are defying Darwinist orthodoxy in favour of creationism – the belief that Adam and Eve are the mother and father of humanity.

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“Evolution is not compatible with Christianity,” he insists. “Genesis tells us that death only came into the world because of Adam’s sin. There was no death before then, and you can’t have evolution without death.”

“Typical petty bloody god; this tart nicks an apple off a tree, so he goes off and invents death and then goes and applies it to absolutely everything – plants, humans and animals alike.

A definite failure of clarity-of-thought. Much like some middle-managers I’ve encountered…”

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3 responses to “BBC: Would you Adam and Eve it?”

  1. Dave Walker
    re: BBC: Would you Adam and Eve it?

    As it’s well after 12:00 now, I’d have thought this BBC page would have disappeared – or maybe they’re leaving it there to fool readers in all timezones ;->

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  2. alecm
    re: BBC: Would you Adam and Eve it?

    i only wish it were a April Fool; and he’s an Aberite, which – having met Aber Christian Union, and knowing a colleague is a former senior member – does not really surprise me.

    http://www.answersingenesis.org/events/bio.aspx?Speaker_ID=16

    Dr. Monty White : Chief Executive of Answers in Genesis (UK). He joined AiG after leaving the University of Wales in Cardiff where he had been a Senior Administrator for 28 years.

    Dr A J Monty White was converted from atheism to Christianity in 1964 when he was an undergraduate student at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. (To read Dr White’s exciting testimony, click here.) He is a graduate of the University of Wales, obtaining his BSc in Chemistry in 1967, and his PhD for his research in the field of Gas Kinetics in 1970. Monty spent two years investigating the optical and electrical properties of organic semi-conductors before moving to Cardiff where he joined the administration at the University there. During this time he held a number of senior positions including Academic Registrar and Director of the International Office. He is also a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

    Monty is well known for his views on creation, having written numerous articles and pamphlets, as well as a number of books dealing with various aspects of creation and evolution, and science and the Bible. Some of his articles and pamphlets have been translated into French, German and Swedish, and his books into Dutch, French and Portuguese. As well as travelling extensively in England and Wales lecturing and speaking in churches, schools, colleges and universities on the creationists’ views of origins, Monty has conducted seminars on creationism in countries on mainland Europe and (once!) in Hong Kong. He was also a visiting lecturer at the Staatsunbhangige Theologische Hochschule, Basel in Switzerland from 1983 to 2001. Monty has appeared on British television programmes and has been interviewed on a number of occasions on local, as well as national, radio about creation.

    Monty is married with three grown up children. His wife, Irene, also works for AiG as the Seminar Co-ordinator.

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  3. rac
    re: BBC: Would you Adam and Eve it?

    shall point Grum at this one to repost…not all Christians from Aber share these points of view, in fact i would say that few from our era do (’87-90) – most of them are or were scientists of different sorts!

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