From: Rich Blinne (richblinne@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Aug 23 2002 - 12:33:57 EDT
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From: "Callee Soltys" <bippy91@hotmail.com>
To: asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: getting ASA to students
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 03:43:36 +0000
>So, for the lost souls wandering the great halls of learning who are
>still searching for an alternative to the answer-given fundamentalist
>extremes (on both sides), I wonder if there are some ways that they
>might stumble on ASA a little earlier. Any suggestions?
>
>by Grace alone we proceed,
>Wayne
>I was one of those wandering lost souls, until I saw an ad for a
>science/religion course in the student paper.....that's how I discovered
>ASA. Perhaps more articles in student newspapers, as well as lectures by
>ASA members in universities will lead students to look into ASA a little
>earlier. I feel so fortunate that I stumbled on ASA when I did, because
>the profs in my university's science department definitely leaned towards
>atheism--making me believe that I had to choose between evolution and God.
The July 2002 article of Scientific American entitled "15 Answers to
Creationist Nonsense" concluded with a similar false dichotomy by saying:
"Listeners [to intelligent design] are essentially left to fill in the
blanks for themselves, and some will undoubtedly do so by substituting their
religious beliefs for scientific ideas.
Time and again, science has shown that methodological naturalism can push
back ignorance, finding increasingly detailed and informative answers to
mysteries that once seemed impenetrable: the nature of light, the causes of
disease, how the brain works. Evolution is doing the same with the riddle of
how the living world took shape. Creationism, by any name, adds nothing of
intellectual value to the effort."
Perhaps Dr. Collins could respond to this false dichotomy between
Christianity and evolution like he did in his keynote address with a letter
to the editor to Scientific American and give a plug for the ASA along the
way.
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