An Evangelistic Perspective:

My posts on Calvin's Institutes will resume once my final assignments are done for this semester. In the meantime, check out Rev. Witteveen's take on some comments made over at Reformed Academic. Jim posts his thoughts on young earth creationism and evangelism here: Rev. Witteveen's blog.

There is a lot of discussion these days regarding the Reformed Academic blog (link: here). That was the point, I guess, but its authors are taking a lot of flak. I wonder sometimes whether they would have been wiser to start with something less controversial and work their way to the creation debate, that way the tone of discussion would have been much more co-operative and brotherly than it has been during this discussion.

Or perhaps those who accept evolution (in some form or another) are just tired of keeping their views under the radar, and want to discuss them openly.

Either way, on every side of the discussion, there has been heated words and hasty words alongside the well-thought-out words and humble words. It will be interesting to see when this discussion ebbs and what the outcome will be...

EDIT: I am just waiting for the day that Reformed Academic will get over the origins debate and start to fulfill their original definition:

A moderated collaborative forum for Canadian Reformed (and other) students and academics to engage issues of Christianity and culture.

Perhaps some other and more pressing discussions can then happen.