Re: Sarfati's books (was Wells and Molecular Phylogenies)

From: douglas.hayworth@perbio.com
Date: Thu Oct 30 2003 - 16:20:53 EST

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    >RE2 is a response to two things:(1) the PBS-TV series Evolution (2001),
    (2) the Scientific American cover story by John Rennie, "15 Answers to
    Creationist Nonsense" (2002). A lot of the arguments in the book are not
    explictly for YEC.<

    David wrote:
    Neither these nor the antievolutionary responses to them can be
    particularly commended. Both the TV series and the Rennie article confound
    science and philosophical issues. Sarfati and the Discovery Institute
    accept this confounding and give bad arguments against the good science
    featured in the two.

    My response:
    In what ways did the TV series confound science and philosophical issues? I
    don't remember noticing that it did when I watched it (I've watched it a
    couple of times). It seems to me that it treated the issues of theism and
    science quite respectfully. In my opinion, the feature on Wheaton college
    was fair; it did not at all imply that evolution/Christian theism was
    necessarily an either/or issue.

    Douglas



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