From: Michael Roberts (michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk)
Date: Mon May 12 2003 - 04:28:13 EDT
I would suggest that you read what I said and not what you think I said.
Incidentally where is the evidence that Faraday was a young earther? And a
good number of IDers are YEC.
Michael
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From: "Iain Strachan" <iain.strachan.asa@ntlworld.com>
To: <mahaffy@mtcnet.net>; <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 9:58 PM
Subject: Re: Guilt by association
> James Mahaffy:
>
> > Roberts wrote:
> > >
> > > IDers are ambivalent on the age of the earth and many like
> > > Johnson,Pearcy try to say that it is
> > > not an important issue. By doing that they in fact swing the argument
in
> > > favour of YEC. After all
> > > if all life is approx only 10,000years old then evolution by any means
> > > (bar the miraculouis ) is
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > As someone who is not ID but respects some of the IDer a bit more, let
> > me differ with good vicar. I do NOT like adhominens and I do not like
> > guilt by association. Both Behe and Johnson (but not some of the others
> > in the ID camp) are not YEC but are old earthers. Behe in fact sees no
> > problems with most of life originating by evolution.
> >
>
> I couldn't agree more. It was perfectly clear to me on reading Behe's
book
> that he supports descent from a common ancestor, and that he believes the
> earth is billions of years old. All the people in the ID camp I've
> corresponded with whom I've asked are also in the Old Earth camp.
>
> To say that you're going to ignore perfectly sound mathematical arguments
> just because some ID'ers are YEC doesn't make any sense at all.
>
> Michael, what were you thinking of? Are you to say that Newton's laws of
> motion aren't worth considering because Newton was a crazy alchemist who
> believed you could turn lesser elements into gold? Or that Faraday's laws
> should be ignored because Faraday was a Young Earther (I think I read that
> somewhere)?
>
> Completely baffled,
>
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>
> 'Tis the majority in this, as all, prevail.
> Assent, and you are sane -
> Demur - you're straightway dangerous
> And handled with a chain -
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