> Larry Johnston:
> I would interpret PJ's remark to say that the Evolutionary (Capital E)
> _worldview_ and the Biblical worldview are in conflict.
By Phillip Johnson's definition, an Evolutionary worldview entails
specifically anti-theistic tenets. Thus to say that an E-worldview is in
conflict with a biblical worldview is to say the trivially obvious. No need
to spearhead an ID movement for that.
> In other words, looking at other writings of PJ, the extrapolation of
> microevolution into macroevolution and beyond to origin of life, into a
> _materialistic worldview_ is in conflict with the Biblical worldview.
But the point that Johnson fails to understand is that the extrapolation of
microevolution into macroevolution and on to the possibility that the
Creation is gifted by its Creator with all of the requisite formational
capabilities to actualize its God-given potentiality for living systems does
NOT necessarily entail any capitulation to a materialistic worldview.
> Thanks Keith and the others. I have enjoyed watching this concerted research
> effort by some good Christians on the ASA List, to do away with the need to
> take PJ and the ID movement seriously.
I do take the ID movement seriously, as a theologically and scientifically
flawed movement that will ultimately bring embarrassment to the Christian
faith.
> Or, is it an attempt to help good
> Christian PJ by showing him how he can be more precise, and more effective?
I have been trying to do that for a decade, without success.
Howard Van Till
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