I would not lump Dawkins and Eugenie Scott together. While Scott professes
to be agnostic, she is not hostile toward religion, and has urged members of
the religious community who support evolution as science to say so
publically. The National Center for Science Education, which Genie is exec.
director, includes a Faith Network Project, currently under the direction of
the Rev. Phina Borgeson, an Episcopal deacon and a member of the board of
the Episcopal Church Network for Science, Technology and Faith. I met Genie
at an AAAS DoSER meeting in Washington two years ago, in which
representative of several faith communities met for consultation on how
people of faith through their denominational organization could defend the
teaching of evolution (not evolutionism) in public schools.
Bob Schneider
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shuan Rose" <shuanr@boo.net>
To: "george murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>; "Glenn Morton"
<glenn.morton@btinternet.com>
Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 11:36 AM
Subject: ID: A tent for all theists? Was :RE: Moon proclaims he is
> messiah! Impact on ID?
> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:03:08 -0400
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>
> Presumably ID is supposed to be a big tent uniting theists (all of whom
> believe that God is the creator?/designer? against antireligious
> evolutionists, like Dawkins, Dennett, Provine etc. Yet it has not worked
out
> that way, with many religious thinkers attacking ID. Why? Are'nt Phillip,
> Jonathon et al. on our side , fighting against the forces of darkness, led
> by the Lord of Hellfire himself, Dawkins? (OK, maybe he isn't THE Lord of
> Hellfire, but IMO he may be one of his minions :-)
> Well, Glenn, George? Do you think you are giving aid and comfort to the
> enemy by "lining up" with , say, Dawkins & Eugene Scott against defenders
of
> theism like Phillip Johnson and Jonathon Wells.? Even if they are wrong
> about a few technical and theological issues, shouldn't we being lining up
> with them ?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
> Behalf Of george murphy
> Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 7:37 PM
> To: Glenn Morton
> Cc: asa@calvin.edu
> Subject: Re: Moon proclaims he is messiah! Impact on ID?
>
>
> I sent my earlier post before looking at the item Glenn refers
to
> below. Having done so, I can heartily recommend it as the funniest
> religious
> news item I've seen in many years. Note especially the following:
> "At the celestial event, Muhammed is said to have led three
cheers,
> while God submitted a letter stating, 'I believe in the True Parents.'"
> Just try to picture it. Words fail me.
>
> George
>
> Glenn Morton wrote:
>
> > In a move which surely must cause a bit of embarrassment for the ID
> group,
> > Phil Johnson and other ID members, Rev. Sun Myung Moon has proclaimed
> "that
> > Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha - even God - have told him he is now 'the
Savior,
> > Messiah and King of Kings of all of humanity!'"
> > http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/3641062.htm
> >
> > This may have some impact on the ID movement but to explain why
requires
> > some background.
> >
> > Keith Miller, in Dec. 1999 published a note with Jonathan Well's web
> papers
> > proclaiming that he was a Moonie. Keith attached a note from Phillip
> Johnson
> > at the bottom. Johnson acknowledges that he knew Wells is a Moonie
but
> > frankly expresses a big yawn for that knowledge. I posted a response
to
> > Keith's note outlining what I viewed as the ID movement's lack of
concern
> > for Scriptural Christianity.
> > http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/199912/0024.html.
> >
> > I also had been having an e-mail conversations with Paul Nelson just
> > before Keith's note. Paul had already confirmed to me that Wells was a
> > Moonie and a fine fellow. He said that they merely disagreed about
> theology.
> > I should hope so! But at what point do our attempts to create an
> apologetic
> > become worthless for our faith?
> >
> > I think the question for the evangelical supporters of the ID movement
> and
> > the Discovery Institute is: Should we support someone with views like
> this?
> > Will Nelson and colleagues like Steve Meyer, in light of Moon's
> > proclamation that he is the 'King of King for all humanity!" continue
to
> > encourage evangelical publishers to publish Well's stuff? Wells who
now
> must
> > believe that Sun Myung Moon is the Messiah seems to hold values quite
at
> > odds with conventional Christianity. It seems to me that ID has
become
> so
> > theologically neutral as to be of no value to Christianity.
> >
> > 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
>
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