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>From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
>Behalf Of RDehaan237@aol.com
>Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 4:57 AM
>Dick,
>
>I think you are being naive if you think Christians in science
>don't pick and
>choose what fits and what doesn't fit. But it's more subtle than that. I
>believe we all tend to hold higher scientific standards for our
>competition
>than we do for our colleagues with whom we agree. We criticize the
>opposition's research more avidly than we do that of our
>colleagues. I don't
>know about you, but when I read SCIENCE and NATURE, I look
>through the table
>of contents to see if there are articles that will convey
>something positive
>about areas that I am interested in, and ignore others that might contain
>information that is dissonant.
Since my YEC days, where I know I engaged in that type of behavior, I have
striven really hard to change the way I do research. I spend time trying to
find where I am wrong rather than wasting time trying to find out where I am
right. After all, it is more embarrassing to be wrong, so it makes sense for
me to try to find that before I go public. Being a YEC and eventually
having to admit that everything I had believed was silly and stupid was a
painful lesson in trying ones best to avoid this approach.
Do I entirely succeed? Of course not--no one is perfect. But I find that ifI
try to find where I am wrong first, it makes it easier to get to the truth
and I avoid fooling myself.
glenn
see http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/dmd.htm
for lots of creation/evolution information
anthropology/geology/paleontology/theology\
personal stories of struggle
>Bob
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