Is arguing over evolution really helping?

[Smidlee]

Heliocentrism was only briefly a problem and only because Tycho Brahe's data (decades of it) pointed to the sun going round the earth. Galileo just didnt have enough data at the time he confronted the establishment... if he'd have waited for data at least he would have the scientists behind him instead of no one... then when it was too late they got the data.

From what I read on Galileo it's wasn't his theory of heliocentrism that was offensive as much as it was his arrogant spirit. After his death , heliocentrism was the normal (including in the church) even without hard evidence to support it.
This is the same with christians , sometimes it's not the message that is offensive as much as it's our spirit toward others.

 

[GodSaves]

A thread that asked why argue, and here what do we have? Arguing...

 

[1denomination]

A thread that asked why argue, and here what do we have? Arguing...

I'm starting to notice a pattern.

 

[Vance]

The OP was asking why we feel the need to argue about this, and the subsequent posts provided that answer.

The YEC's are on a mission to show that evolution and an old earth are unbiblical and, thus, dangerous to Christianity. Thus, they feel a strong need to present this view aggressively, since anything that threatens Christianity must be dealt with aggressively.

TE's believe that this mission of the YEC's is, itself, dangerous to Christianity and is losing souls to the Kingdom, and thus must be fought against with equal measure.

Personally, I can say that if YEC's believed what they did, but were not on this mission, with their ministries, books, lectures, etc, I would have little or no motivation to discuss these matters.

 

[Micaiah]

One of my non-Christian friends told me that
"It [Young Earth Creationism] makes Christians look stupid and blind."

Do we want to seem stupid and blind to a world of unbelievers? Unbelievers can be lost because of Young Earth Creationism, and it makes Theistic Evolution believers, like myself, deeply uncomfortable, and may make less mature Christians question their faith.

I think this is one reason many TE's promote or cling to their views.

 

[Vance]

I think this is one reason many TE's promote or cling to their views.

"cling"? No. Simply understand and accept, with full peace and confidence. What is frustrating and, indeed, uncomfortable, is seeing souls lost to the Kingdom of God as a result of YEC teaching. We must do something to stop it.