Re: More fusillades in the ID wars

Michael wrote:
I reckon that between them YECs and IDers have done much to step up the culture wars against Christians and have spread it throughout the world including to Britain where there were absolutely no problems 30 years ago.
They have provided more than enough for the ACLU and Dawkins clones to behave the way do. (I offer no defence for the Smithsonian as I dont know what they have done.)

rich adds:
The culture wars are indicative of a much more serious issue, and will heat up regardless of what YECs or IDers do.

I attended HBES2000 at Amherst. I journaled my focus at the conference. Here is a snip.

"The full conference program of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society began on a sunny humid Thursday morning in June in the year 2000 on the Amherst College campus and it didn’t wind down until the following Sunday afternoon. I was privileged to attend presentations by such well-known scholars as Steven Pinker (How the Mind Works), Robert Wright (The Moral Animal) and Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene). As impressive as these well-known scholars were (and there were many lesser-known though just-as-able scholars at the conference) I’d come specifically to attend the panel discussion on the use of evolutionary biology in understanding religion. Dan Kriegman was listed as the organizer and its focus would be Kevin MacDonald’s trilogy on the evolutionary strategy of Judaism. "

 
I will forward the complete paper describing the session on evolutionary biology and religion upon request. What it amounted to was a high level confrontation in the culture wars having nothing to do with YEC or ID but whether or not study of the Hebrew Bible will even be ALLOWED in HBES from an evolutionary perspective.

rich faussette
Received on Wed Feb 2 13:41:06 2005