From: John W Burgeson <burgytwo@juno.com>
Howard, your reply puzzles me. Bill Dembski is asserting a claim about the
"Darwinian establishment," by which he clearly is referring to people such
as Puglicci, Dawkins, Schafersman, Provine, and others of their ilk. Now his
claim may, or may not, be correct (I think it is, based on conversations I
had with Schafersman at the NTSE in Austin about 3 or 4 years ago), but it
is hardly criticism of theistic evolution to note what some misguided
atheists say about theistic evolution.
Now if Bill were to write that he endorses that view, that would be another
thing.
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Burgy,
By ascribing these sentiments to other unnamed members of a hypothetical
"Darwinian establishment" Bill was able technically to claim no
responsibility for these sentiments and their tone of voice. However, by
choosing not to quote any representative member of this "establishment" and
to craft his own concept of what "their" attitude was, Bill chose not to
distance himself more that a micron from that same judgement.
Howard Van Till
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