From: jgacker@neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov (James G. Acker)
Subject: Another word for Antti
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For humor's sake:

	Just found out via quotation in another post that Antti
replied to my suggestion of "motivate" for "to make someone to do
(something)" with a Finnish word that meant "to make someone to
run", and challenged me to do the same.

	Jeez, Antii, give me a hard one!  I can do that, and with a
LOT fewer letters than your word:


	"AIM"

	(other possibilities:  "HORNETS!"  or "TSUNAMI!"  -- oops, sorry,
that's Japanese)

	A real note -- my singles Christian group is studying Genesis!  Oh
joy!  The study text is "Genesis:  An Expositional Commentary" by James
Montgomery Boice.  At first skim, it seems reasonable (Bill Hamilton:  this
is the Book I mentioned seeing before!  Does God answer prayers or what!?)
though it criticizes evolution as being incomplete, the same old "no
transitional fossils" line.  Also knows diddly about entropy.
	However, check this:

	"In spite of the careful biblical and scientific research [I didn't
say it wasn't biased - Ed.]  that has accumulated in support of the
creationist's view, there are problems that make the theory WRONG to most
(including many evangelical) scientists.  We conclude by listing the
most important."
	- old earth, older universe
	- Radioisotope dating
	- Non-radiometric dating  (cited:  carbonate deposits, sediments, 
deposits of evaporites, coral reefs, sea-floor spreading, etc.)
	Includes an implied refutation of flood geology, and acceptance of 
long "periods" in exchange for 24-hour days of six-day creation.  See
biographical information below for significance, and also Genesis 2:4, Psalm
90:4, which Boice cites as "day" used to mean "period".


	Boice favors "progressive creation", espoused in "Genesis One &
the Origin of the Earth" by Robert C. Newman and Herman J. Eckelmann, 
and "Creation and the Flood:  An Alternative to Flood Geology and Theistic
Evolution" by Davis Young, SON OF the well-known Westminster Theological
Seminary Professor of Old Testament, Edward J. Young.  Davis Young 
(ca. 1982) is Associate Professor of Geology at the University
of North Carolina at Wilmington.

	DISCLAIMER:  That's what Boice favors, not me.  

I've seen Davis Young mentioned here:  what's the current scoop on him?
I find his father's vocation and his choice of profession intriguing.

	Reference information:

	GENESIS:  AN EXPOSITIONAL COMMENTARY
	Volume 1:  Genesis 1:1 - 11:32
	Copyright 1982 by the Zondervan Corporation

	Zondervan Publishing House
	Academic and Professional Books
	Grand Rapids, MI  49530

	ISBN 0-310-21541-2 (v. 1)


	More on Boice:  Pastor of historic 10th Presbyterian Church in 
Philadelphia...  President, Evangelical Ministries;  Editor, Eternity
Magazine.  Harvard, Princeton Theological Seminary,  University of Basel.
	*** and the kicker ***
	Chairman of the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy
during its ten-year existence.

	I can see it's going to be a fun fall!  I even thought about
bringing a sign that says "There are scientists in the audience" to 
raise as a polite refutation of occasional speaker misstatements, which
I'm sure they would understand once I've explained them clearly, such
as the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics ;-).  But no, some of my best 
friends are fundamentalists.

	Jim Acker
	jgacker@neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov

(I wonder how many volumes of this there are.  Anybody know?  Covering 
Chapter 1-11 takes 349 pages!)