Maybe Charlotte Mason gave Vans Loons book a postive review because she herself wasn a creationist?
Actually, Charlotte was a creationist. She may not have been a young earth creationist the way we understand it, but she did believe that God created the world. However, at the time she lived (she was 17 when Darwin’s Origin of Species was published), it was looking so convincingly like evolution was a fact, that even creationist Christians had to somehow reconcile that information. Most (including Charlotte) figured that evolution was somehow the process God used to create the world. She didn’t have the benefit of scientists like those at ICR and Answers in Genesis. 😉 But she believed that somehow, with more illuminating discoveries, it would all work out and fit together, and that we needed to keep an open mind and have faith that it would eventually work out to God’s glory. I think she would have been excited at the progress that creationist scientists have made; it’s something I think she would have regretted missing out on. Leslie Noelani Read more about Van Loon’s Story of Manki
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- Charlotte Mason gave Van Loons Story of Mankind a favorable review, but some reviewers have criticized the book as being historically inaccurate. Is that because Van Loon isn politically correct, or are there real errors in the book?
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