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As a science major, I was taught, as Darrow emphasized, the "enlightened" view of the history of life—evolution. It was taught, and still is in most institutions, largely as fact and exclusive of a creator. Only by self study, God's grace, and Christian professors have I realized, as Bryan did, the religious and philosophical basis of evolution. The debate remains the same now as it was at the Scopes Trial: was life the result of intelligent creation or spontaneous evolutionary development? I believe the concept of a designed creation is much more sound—scientifically, philosophically, and theologically.

John G. Leslie, MD, Ph.D.
Gallup, New Mexico

How ironic! As I opened my latest issue of CH, I couldn't help but associate the dispensational chart (pp. 40 & 41) with the Orthodox icons of the previous issue. This correlation testifies to the power of sanctified art to elicit intelligent emotional worship of Jesus Christ.

John Reichardt
Tampere, Finland

Bryan's "I am more interested in the Rock of Ages than in the age of the rocks," when recorded by Irving Stone in Clarence Darrow for the Defense, became " … rock of ages … " Three little words, glorified by one side as "the Word," were neutered by the other side into mere words.

John D. Griffith
Arkansas City, Kansas

In the December 5, 1995, issue of Time, an article on evolution points out that reputable scientists no longer believe in Darwinian evolution because there is not enough time for it to occur. The transitional forms are not there. Now they are trying to make up some other way that life could have defied entropy without any consciousness. However, high school and college textbooks will continue to teach Darwinian evolution as a fact for years to come.

The latest ACLU fundraiser letter states they are fighting a moral, not a legal, battle. Darwinian evolution has been a key point in that moral battle. A federal court in New Orleans just held that a school board cannot put out a disclaimer before the teaching of evolution. I guess the federal court has not kept up with science.

Bob Downing, AOL

I was raised in a Southern Baptist church, saved under the influence of the Presbyterian Church in America, attended Columbia Bible College, attended a mildly dispensational church for 17 years, and am now pastor of a historically dispensational Bible Church. I have been the recipient of Calvinist, fundamentalist, Keswick, and even Pentecostal teaching. The current issue lifted a lot of the fog. I've found it very difficult to describe my own leanings theologically because nothing fits! Now I feel that I most closely associate with the Reformed Baptist position. It is not a perfect fit, but at least I can get the jacket buttoned.

Keith Doster
Central Pennsylvania

I commend you on your fair treatment of difficult topics even though you have an admitted bias. I am a dispensationalist, but I'm convinced we must learn to disagree agreeably. I don't feel I'm compromising if I sit down with a brother in Christ who happens to be of a different viewpoint theologically.

Bob Jackson, AOL

The article on J. Frank Norris (p. 28) leaves the impression that he was a Southern Baptist. Not so. He and his church, First Baptist of Fort Worth, withdrew fellowship early in his ministry. It remained an independent church until a few years ago when the congregation voted to reaffiliate with the SBC.

Also, on page 34, under the heading "Southern Baptist Convention," you include not only Norris but the Bible Baptist Fellowship and Jerry Falwell, both of whom have never been Southern Baptists.

David W. Harper
Wildwood, Florida

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