Re: More fusillades in the ID wars

Keith Miller posted a commentary:

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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.)
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This reminds me of what happened to the intellectuals
in China during the cultural revolution: signatures,
photographs..... guilt by association....

Each article must be judged on its own merit. It is
fair to say, for anyone who has really tried to do good
scholarship on a manuscript, that it can never be perfect.
When the word "shoddy" comes in is relative and not well
defined.

I don't share much agreement with ID myself, but if an
article had something interesting in it, as long as it
met some reasonable criteria of scholarship (granted,
a not so well defined a term), it would be of
some value to make it avaliable for others to see and form
their own opinions about it. That is also part of a free
and transparent society.

Did anyone notice the bitter irony of this? A _Catholic_ who
is now being charged as a heretic by a new brand of ideologues
who use the Galileo image as justification for rejecting the
institution. It took the Catholic church 400 years to forgive
Galileo... Are we seeing the reverse problem happening?

By Grace alone we proceed, (indeed)
Wayne
Received on Tue Feb 1 18:53:30 2005