Re: More fusillades in the ID wars

Sheila,

There's a long discussion of the piece at
http://www.pandasthumb.org/pt-archives/000430.html

Wesley Elsberry has been a member of this list off-and-on.

Here's the Discovery Institute's (Meyer's) response

http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2228

I tried to get a discussion of this going last fall but got no takers.

TG

>The article can be viewed at:
><http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2177>http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2177
>
>I am interested in some constructive criticism of the methodology
>and science behind the article.
>
>Sheila
>
>
>
>Dick Fischer <dickfischer@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
>Ted Davis wrote:
>
>> If this report is
>> factual--and I'd like to know whether it is--then I would suggest that
>those
>> of us who genuinely believe in religious freedom would raise hell, such as
>> asking our congressional representative to look into it and reprimand the
>> Smithsonian if it is true.
>>
>> If it is true (as I keep saying), it is surely a violation of the first
>> amendment--a real violation, not an imagined one.
>
>I think the point is being missed completely. Freedom of speech does not
>extend to publication in science journals. Meyers' article snuck in under
>the radar. The editor should have had the good sense to recognize an
>article that lacks any positive evidence for what it asserts, and should
>never have run the article in the first place. He is expected to exercise
>editorial judgment after all. He embarrassed the institution and damaged
>its credibility. If the Smithsonian reacted badly that is another issue.
>
>Dick Fischer - Genesis Proclaimed Association
>Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
>www.genesisproclaimed.org
>
>
>
>Sheila McGinty Wilson
>sheila-wilson@sbcglobal.net

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