From: Cmekve@aol.com
Date: Fri Jul 18 2003 - 20:16:31 EDT
In a message dated 7/18/03 6:50:50 AM Mountain Standard Time,
hvantill@chartermi.net writes:
<< >From: Dawsonzhu@aol.com
> Walter Hicks wrote:
>
>>In the past, I have noted from the Humanist web
>>site the names of their prominent members. Quite
>>often they are the leaders in the organizations
>>cited. Such a high correlation implied to me that
>>they are using these media to expose their
>>atheistic viewpoints. (e.g. Sagan, Asimov, etc.)
>>It's just a suggestion -- I offer no proof.
>
> The fact that they are in these positions is not
> so much the question I think. The question is,
> "how did things end up this way".
Wayne,
That's my question also. It is clear that the university (representing
institutional education) and the cathedral (representing institutional
religion) have had a parting of the ways. How did things end up this way? Is
it all the fault of one of the parties (those atheists, perhaps)? Is the
blame to be shared more equally? Or, is it, as some on this list seem to
believe, a sinister and racially specific evolutionary strategy that needs
to be exposed?
Howard Van Till
>>
I realize Howard is playing devil's advocate here but for those interested,
George Marsden (Howard's former colleague at Calvin) has written a fine history
on the separation of Christianity from most higher education in the U.S. The
book is The Soul of the American University (1994; Oxford Univ. Press) and
caused quite an academic squabble at the time. Marsden attempted to answer his
critics in the follow-up: The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship.
Karl
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Karl V. Evans
cmekve@aol.com
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