Bachmann how old is the earth

Earl Blumenauer D-Ore. Grist thanks its sponsors. Become one. We aim to inspire more people to talk about climate change and to believe that meaningful change is not only possible but happening right now. Our in-depth approach to solutions-based journalism takes time and proactive planning, which is why Grist depends on reader support.

Help us further advance our reporting by giving us the stable, reliable funding we need. Consider becoming a monthly member to ensure this vital work continues and thrives. Join us today, and your first yearly amount will be matched dollar for dollar but only for a limited time. We learned that homosexuality is a choice made by people to live in sin, under Satan's influence. The reparative therapy — "pray away the gay" — used at the clinic run by Bachmann's husband was something we all endorsed, under the influence of evangelical social scientists like James Dobson , who had a PhD in child development and thus knew what he was talking about.

We grew up hearing about the "gay agenda" and how it was being used by Satan to destroy traditional morality and faith in the Bible. Christian "historians" like Peter Marshall and David Barton helped us understand that America was a "Christian nation" and that recent travails, like the social upheaval of the s that gave us drug abuse, promiscuity, and the homosexual agenda, were the result of abandoning America's religious roots.

Many evangelicals, myself included, were fortunate enough to study under Christian scholars, like my professors at Eastern Nazarene College in the s or my colleagues today at Gordon College, who see through the nonsensical claims of people like James Dobson, David Barton, Francis Schaeffer, and Ken Ham — who runs the preposterous Creation Museum in Kentucky. Even as a college student I recall Schaeffer being examined rather critically and young-Earth creationism dismissed out of hand.

There are, fortunately, many evangelical scholars — National Institutes of Health NIH director Francis Collins and historian Mark Noll come to mind — who are quietly raising alarms about all this dangerous anti-intellectualism, warning us about populist gurus who are marketing a "Christianised" version of knowledge that, on closer examination, turns out to be neither Christian nor knowledge.

Unfortunately, millions of evangelicals — and this would include much of the political base being courted by the GOP presidential candidates as well as the candidates themselves — are trapped in an alternative "parallel culture" with its own standards of truth.

The intellectual authorities mentioned above — with the exception of Schaeffer who died in — all have media empires that spread their particular version of the gospel. Millions of dollars every year support the production of books, DVDs, radio shows, school curricula, and other educational materials. Very few evangelicals grow up without hearing some trusted authority — perhaps even with a PhD — tell them that the age of the Earth is an "open question".

Or that scientists are questioning evolution. Or that gays are getting spiritual help and becoming straight. Or that secular historians are taking religion out of US history. Historian Randall Stephens and I have been interested in this alternative knowledge world for years.

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