"Bible Science" -- a house of cards

Having just come across it -- I was intrigued by an op-ed piece in USA Today. This essay by Tom Krattenmaker illustrates so clearly why Evolution Sunday is so important. Krattenmaker talks about such things as the creationist book sold at the Grand Canyon and the soon to open Creationist museum in Kentucky.
Bible literalists have hung their hats on science and yet deny science. They want so badly to have credibility that they create a creationist science to prove that God exists. Yet, they hang their message on something like the date of the formation of the Grand Canyon. If it's 4.5 million years old and not the result of Noah's Flood, then well the Bible is wrong and God doesn't exist. The same is true of the attempt to put humans and dinosaurs into the same story -- I call it Flintstones science.
Kurt Wise, a Harvard educated paleontologist and faculty member at Southern Baptist Seminary, is an advisor to the Kentucky based Creationist museum. Now, if he's able to get into Harvard and study with Stephen Jay Gould, he's a whole lot smarter than me, but his own religious commitments have narrowed the field as to what is true and though trained as a scientist he's unable to pursue truth in a scientific way.
But to Dr. Wise, disproving evolution is the key to the Christian faith:

In comments published last fall by the Baptist Press news service, a consultant to the Creation Museum implies that the very foundation of Christian belief will crumble if believers don't disprove the scientific consensus that humans evolved into existence tens of thousands of years ago. The consultant is one Kurt Wise, a Harvard-educated Ph.D. and director of the Center for Theology and Science at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Says Wise: "If humans really date back that far, and Adam lived far enough in the past to be their ancestor, then the genealogical record of Genesis 5 is wrong, and thus the Bible and its author, God, are wrong."

Now I thought it was Jesus, but I guess I'm wrong. I should have known that it's "Bible Science."

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