Re: A grave concern

glenn morton (mortongr@flash.net)
Fri, 03 Dec 1999 21:28:39 +0000

My concern with this is similar to Keith Miller's concern. How many
theologically conservative churches have invited Wells to speak and thus
spread Unification theology from their own pulpit. Was this fair to those
churches? Was this ethical? While the comment is made that this was not
'hidden' neither was it advertised either. I didn't know it until a few
weeks ago. I wrote Paul Nelson who said he has known it for a long time and
it didn't bother him. If so, what cause and what purpose is being fought
for here if ID will equally support islam and any other religiou? Aren't
christians called to be light to the world? To Steven MeyerWhat has
happened to you guys, Steve? When I knew you at ARCO you wanted to make a
difference in christianity. Is Islam and every other religion your goal now?

I also have a concern that the so called wedge movement is of no value to
Christianity or christian apologetics precisely because it is so broad
based that even the Roman Gods could be guilty of designing the universe.
See Phil's note below.

At 01:26 PM 12/3/99 -0500, Keith B Miller Quoted Phillip Johnson :
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>Keith:
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>First, it is true that Jonathan Wells is a member of the Unification
>Church, and this fact has never been "hidden."
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>Second, the Wedge (including the Discovery Institute) is an intellectual
>movement, not a church or confessional movement. We have no faith
>statement or religious requirement. Our objective is to bring before the
>literate public significant questions which are presently suppressed by the
>cultural power of the scientific materialist establishment, aided as it is
>by theistic evolutionists such as yourself. We welcome participation by
>all qualified persons who want to make it possible to follow the scientific
>evidence where it leads, rather than being restricted by the dictates of
>methodological naturalism. For example, any Moslem or Mormon would also be
>welcome to make an intellectual contribution to the scientific and
>philosophical debate -- especially if he or she were as capable as Jonathan
>Wells.
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>Third, this personal attack strikes me as an act of desperation. Why don't
>you start thinking about the issues raised by Jonathan's excellent
>scientific publications, instead of grasping for some further excuse for
>ignoring the evidence for intelligent design in biology? Those papers are
>available at the ARN web site, www.arn.org
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>Finally, your threat to publish what is already widely known brings to mind
>what the Duke of Wellington said to a lady who threatened to publish his
>amorous correspondence. You can look it up. And please do publish this
>message with your own.
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>Phillip Johnson
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>Keith B. Miller
>Department of Geology
>Kansas State University
>Manhattan, KS 66506
>kbmill@ksu.ksu.edu
>http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~kbmill/
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glenn

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