> >> Phil sees "theistic evolution" as perhaps the worst case
>scenario. Bryan described it once (Perhaps this quotation isn't
>absolutely
>accurate, word for word, but I'll imply it is with quotation marks), as
>"the
>anesthetic that dulls the pain while the faith is removed." I sense that
>Phil's position is the same on that score.>>
>
>To the extent I understand Phil Johnson ( I don't know him well, but I
>have had opportunity to interact with him in conversation at two
>different meetings), I suspect he would agree.
>
>Burgy
>
I heard Johnson a couple of weeks ago in Fort Worth. He said the
things I expected he would, but he also ridiculed the position that
evolution occurred under God's direction, calling it a "compromise"
with the clear implication that it is a dishonorable compromise. I
was puzzled later on reflection why he would ridicule a position that
some of his allies, especially Behe, apparently hold.
I asked him afterward if he was familiar with Francis Collins and
pointed out that Collins said recently (in his speech published in
PSCF) that he thought that the evidence that evolution happened is
overwhelming. He said that he knows Collins, thinks he is a fine
Christian man, but that he "doing the best the can in the place that
he is," or something to that effect. A friend of mine, thinking that
I had not been able to ask him about Collins (I left early and came
back to talk to Johnson), asked him the same question about Collins
and was told that he (Johnson) didn't think that Collins knows much
about evolution! When you remember that he has also denied that HIV
causes AIDs and had scolded all the tumor biologists for studying
tumor viruses, I guess its not surprising that he thinks he knows
more about evolutionary theory than Francis Collins. Johnson's
intellectual hubris is a spectacle to behold.
Preston G.
Received on Fri Mar 12 01:04:59 2004
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