Sunday, March 05, 2006
Profile of ministries rises as intelligent design debate grows
"MADISON - The lights dimmed inside Parkway Pentecostal Church's sanctuary Sunday evening as Steve Grohman directed his laser pointer to an excerpt from a biology textbook projected onto a jumbo screen.
'The whole reason they came up with these ideas was to come up with an alternative to the Bible,' he said, speaking about evolution. 'They think there's a disagreement between the Bible and science.'
The leader of a traveling ministry called the Creation Seminar, Grohman is part of the growing creation evangelism industry, which seeks to undo secular teaching about the origin of the world.
As intelligent design debates have rippled recently through schools, courts and statehouses, these ministries have been toiling for years.
'We've been busy all along,' said Grohman, who for the past 13 years has been traveling the country in a mobile home with his wife and son leading creation seminars.
Grohman's 10-hour program mixes Biblical teaching with lessons about the atmospheric conditions during the time of Adam and Eve and how dinosaurs were just giant reptiles."
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