Valentine Pontifex

Welcome back to As the Evolution/Creation Debate Turns. Now for our next surprising episode:

<a href="http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2002/0226DrLaura.asp" target="_blank">http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2002/0226DrLaura.asp</a>

Writer@Large

This isn't as surprising as it may seem. "Dr." Laura (who is actually a less legitimate "Dr." then Kent Hovind--at least he has a slip of paper that says "PhD") is a Jew (as the article states); I don't think Young Earth Creationism is rampant amongst the Jewish community.

--W@L

Grumpy

Hold on. According to her <a href="http://www.drlaura.com/about/" target="_blank">online resume'</a>, Dr. Laura earned her PhD at Columbia University -- not exactly Split-Level Academy like Dr. Dino.

Granted, it's a degree in physiology, not psychology, as would befit her persona. But the point is made.

hezekiah jones

AFAIK, Laura has an actual doctorate, albeit unrelated to her alleged area of expertise. I believe its in Physiology. I read somewhere that her doctoral work involved stripping the fat off of rat testicles. Plus, I know where Laura's beaver shots are.

AiG's letter is comical, especially the part about the "loving Old Testament god."

bluefugue

Odd, considering Jews wrote the damn book.

Devnet has railed against fundamentalist Judaism in Israel. I wonder how it fares here in the States. What percentage of Orthodox Jews, for instance, would be creationists... or what about Hassidim?

Mageth

Jiminy Christmas. If someone was to post the content of that letter here in EoG (which several people have, I'm sure) they'd be torn to shreds.

"You indicated that evolution was God’s wonderful way of creating. But why would the all-powerful Creator of the universe use such a cruel and wasteful process as ‘survival of the fittest’ (nature red—with blood—in tooth and claw, as Tennyson put it) to bring about the higher forms of life? The horrible evolutionary process goes completely against the nature of the loving, omnipotent God of the Old Testament."

My reading of the OT led me to form the opinion a cruel "God red - with blood - in tooth and claw" rather than a "loving" omnipotent God.

And since when is evolution "cruel and wasteful?" What's "wasted?" Evolution's an efficient, self-adjusting system that generates species fitted to particular niches. Looking at this planet, it's evident that life "strives" to not waste anything, to fill every niche and use every resource possible.

And what's more "cruel and wasteful" than the Flood, anyway?

Pantera

Hmm... I think Devnet once said that practically all Orthodox Jews are strict six-day creationists. Reform and Coservative Jews (who IIRC constitute the majority of the Jewish community - outside Israel at least) presumably are a bit more flexible. I guess Dr Laura shows that even orthodox Judaism isn't as monolithic as one might think.

Kosh

He he. My little brother worked on her short
lived TV show. What a B*tch! She threw temper
tantrums and insisted they build a studio at her
house because she couldn't be troubled to drive
in!

Writer@Large

No no ... it was so she could be her kid's mom .


At least here in the states, I can honestly say I've never met, either in RL or online, a Jewish YEC. Xian, yes; Muslim, yes; but never Jewish. I don't doubt there out there; just not as vocal as the Ken Hams and the Harun Yahyas of the world . Could be I'm just looking in the wrong places .

--W@L

Writer@Large

That's what I get for relying on the homosexual anti-Laura propaganda machine for my info .

--W@L