Re: More fusillades in the ID wars

The article Keith has recommended contains the following paragraph:

It may be true that Sternberg is not and advocate of ID but only because he
is much worse: he is, for instance, on the Editorial Board of the Occasional
Papers of the Baraminology Study Group at Bryan College in Tennessee. This
is a "research" group devoted to the determination of the created kinds
of Genesis. Sternberg was also a signatory of the Discovery Institute's
"100 Scientists Who Doubt Darwinism" statement. (Klinghoffer fails to
mention these rather salient facts.)

I think we all know what inference we're supposed to draw from this:
Sternberg is (gasp) a YEC, since he agrees to listen in on Kurt Wise's
(quite unconventional) creationist conversations. Well, Sternberg is not a
YEC, and probably also not an ID advocate either. (The author of this blog
fails to mention these rather salient facts.)

But he does believe that it is appropriate for scientists to *discuss* some
of the issues being raised by ID advocates, rather than simply throwing the
"creationist" label at them--a label which is of course deliberately chosen
to help courts keep anything resembling ID out of public school science
classes.

Incidentally, I've mentioned to Sternberg that the ASA is meeting here this
summer, and I hope he will drop in for a day or two. He'd probably find our
fellowship a lot warmer than that down in DC presently.

Ted
Received on Tue Feb 1 14:12:02 2005