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Mod­ern cul­ture, no longer held togeth­er by a con­sen­sus world­view, is in the midst of an eth­i­cal cri­sis. Today there is only a faint mem­o­ry of bib­li­cal norms. Nat­u­ral­is­tic philoso­phies have made it their goal to cri­tique and replace tra­di­tion­al val­ues based on the Judeo-Chris­t­ian world view. Moral val­ues, say the human­ists, are not based on the rev­e­la­tion of a tran­scen­dent deity but are the prod­uct of human expe­ri­ence.

By: William Fur­man | The debate between Young Earth pro­po­nents (YEP) and Old Earth pro­po­nents (OEP) has caused a high
degree of polar­iza­tion with­in the Chris­t­ian com­mu­ni­ty. It seems to me that YEP try to rec­on­cile sci­ence to
the Bible and OEP try to rec­on­cile the Bible to sci­ence. If YEP, as some have accused, twist sci­ence to fit
the Bible, I think it is more than fair to say that OEP twist the Bible to fit cur­rent­ly accept­ed sci­en­tif­ic
the­o­ries.

It is incor­rect to refer to con­ser­v­a­tive polit­i­cal groups in this coun­try as hav­ing fas­cist ten­den­cies. Why? They gen­er­al­ly do not deny a tran­scen­dent deity, they do not hold to an organ­ic view of gov­ern­ment, nor are they irra­tional. They are, how­ev­er, in some cas­es, very nation­al­is­tic. This alone does not war­rant the charge of fas­cism.

This address on “The Sci­en­tif­ic Prepa­ra­tion of the Min­is­ter” was deliv­ered Sep­tem­ber 20, 1912, at the open­ing of the?one hun­dred and first ses­sion of Prince­ton The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary. It is found in the Prince­ton The­o­log­i­cal Review,?Vol. XI, No. 1, 1913, p. 1.