Wartburg Theological Seminary, affiliated with the hyper-liberal Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), is offering a series of CE programs for clergy and congregational members known as Come To the Castle. The first class for church members (pastors have a separate track) was held September 26 and covered: “Biblically Challenging Creationism.” Taught by final-year Masters Students this course ran 3 hours over two sessions.
One wonders how “Masters Students” are able to teach on this topic when there are virtually no primary source materials by creationists in their library!
The overwhelming majority of their books on this topic are anti-creationist or theistic evolution. We could only find 6 books by Henry Morris, 1 book by Lee Strobel, 1 intelligent design book, and 1 DVD from the BBC on this topic. No books by Ken Ham, Duane Gish, Andrew Snelling, Russell Humphreys, Steve Austin, Answers in Genesis, Creation Research Society, Institute for Creation Research (except Henry Morris), Creation Ministries International, etc., etc.
What a sad academic environment when Continuing Education classes, run by “final-year Masters Students,” have to rely on 2nd and 3rd hand resources. But, hey, there’s always Wikipedia!
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