--- george murphy <gmurphy@raex.com> wrote:
>> First, there is something seriously wrong
if
> apologetics is
> taught by people whose primary qualification is that
> they are
> "well-trained philosophers". Certainly such
> teachers should have some
> philosophical competence, but apologetics is first
> of all a
> _theological_ enterprise which (like all theology)
> makes use of
> philosophy as one of its tools.
> Perhaps you simply meant that the teachers
> of this class are
> theologians who are trained in philosophy.
You are perfectly right, the teachers are both
theologians and philosophers, although those that
teach this specific course are the philosophers among
the theologians, i.e., they have their MDivs, but
their PhDs are in philosophy.
The
> previous paragraph is
> then inapplicable, but I would add that it is at
> least as important,
> especially if arguments about design & evolution are
> major parts of the
> discussion, that the teachers have expertise in
> science as in
> philosophy.
Perhaps this is the real problem here, they aren't
scientists.
Bjorn Moller
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