{"id":2684,"date":"2006-04-25T15:50:14","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T15:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/intelligence-designs-other-opponents.html"},"modified":"2006-04-25T15:50:14","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T15:50:14","slug":"intelligence-designs-other-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/intelligence-designs-other-opponents.html","title":{"rendered":"Intelligence Design’s Other Opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Creationists, of course:<\/a><\/p>\n

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But the growth of AiG’s ministry doesn’t put a smile on the face of Mark Looy, vice president of outreach. "We’re ministering to many, many more people. We’re seeing a lot of people saved," Looy says. "But the other side of that coin is if the church had been doing its job in the Bible colleges and been doing its job to equip people to defend their faith, we wouldn’t be a ministry."<\/p>\n

"Our growth really is kind of an indictment on a church that’s either ignored the issue of the authority of the Bible in Genesis or even compromised\u2014theistic evolution, progressive creation," Looy says. Elsewhere he calls Genesis the most-attacked book of the Bible.<\/p>\n

But such "compromise positions," as Looy calls them, are not limited to versions of the gap theory, which allows for any amount of time to be inserted between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. The most recent attack on Genesis, one that to AiG’s dismay is accepted and promoted by evangelicals, is Intelligent Design.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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