"III"! I love it!
Not to mention Sam Berry, who has written extensively. Gareth Jones, Derek Burke, and Franciso Ayala (who has contributed in a minor way :-)). Then there are those who have not overtly "come out" in the public profile - David Young (Uni of Melbourne), who has published a standard undergraduate text on organic evolution, Ken Campbell (Australian National University), who has devoted a life to palaeontology, especially the evolution of fishes, and Alastair Richardson (University of Tasmania).
III's of course want to minimise these people and maximise their ignorance lest their comfortable trench warfare position be shaken.
Jon
SteamDoc@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:08:21 AM Eastern Standard Time, shuanr@boo.net writes:
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> > [reporting on discussions in the "Internet Infidels" forum]
> >
> > One point that did come out was there seems to be only one Christian
> > scientist speaking in favor of evolution ( Kenneth Miller).
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> If that's what they think, then they are III (Ignorant Internet Infidels).
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> Just picking people who have written books, I can think of George Murphy, Howard Van Till, Richard Bube, John Polkinghorne, Glenn Morton. And whoever is contributing to the volume Keith Miller is editing (Keith, can you tell us who the contributors are?).
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> Then there are Christians in science who have not written books, but have argued elsewhere (articles, talks, webpages, etc.) that it is OK if evolution was/is God's way of creating. I'm on that list, as are Joel Cannon, Loren Haarsma, Steve Schimmrich, and many others, some of whom are on this ASA discussion list.
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> Then there are prominent Christians in science who do not tend to "join the fray" but will tell you if asked that they have no objection to evolution. Bill Phillips and Francis Collins come to mind.
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> So there are plenty of other Christian voices. The problem is that it is hard for us to be heard above all the shouting of the "creation science" crowd, and above the somewhat more polite noise of the "intelligent design" special creationists. Part of the problem is also that many in evangelical churches in the U.S. have been conditioned by years of bad teaching to think that "evolution" must be false in order for Christianity to be true, so they pay attention to the people who are telling them what they want to hear.
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> Allan Harvey, steamdoc@aol.com
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