{"id":4023,"date":"2007-12-12T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/12\/quote-of-the-day-stephen-moshier\/"},"modified":"2007-12-12T23:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T23:28:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-stephen-moshier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/12\/quote-of-the-day-stephen-moshier.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Stephen Moshier)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#660000\">\u201cMany of us at Christian colleges really grieve at what a problem this young-earth creationism makes for the Christian witness. It\u2019s almost like they\u2019re adding another thing you have to believe to become a Christian. It\u2019s like saying, You have to believe the world is flat to be a Christian, and that\u2019s absolutely unreasonable\u201d<\/span> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheaton.edu\/geology\/moshier.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Moshier<\/a>, Chair of the Department of Geology at Wheaton College; quoted in a <em>Christianity Today<\/em> blog entry the title of which says it all: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/ctliveblog\/archives\/2007\/12\/young_earth_cre.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Young Earth Creationism Makes Life Difficult For Everyone<\/a>\u201c).<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2276575027551126799?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMany of us at Christian colleges really grieve at what a problem this young-earth creationism makes for the Christian witness. It\u2019s almost like they\u2019re adding another thing you have to believe to become a Christian. It\u2019s like saying, You have to believe the world is flat to be a Christian, and that\u2019s absolutely unreasonable\u201d (Stephen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Quote of the Day (Stephen Moshier)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cMany of us at Christian colleges really grieve at what a problem this young-earth creationism makes for the Christian witness. 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