Re: Re: Dembski and Morris

That's interesting. I wouldn't be surprised if his "official" position has filp-flopped from time to time. But I think in his zeal to get ID taught in public schools, Dembski has gotten very cozy with evolution. Here is a quote from a few years back. Also, so that it isn't taken out of context, I'll post the link to the source article.

"More significantly for the educational curriculum, however, is that intelligent design has no stake in living things coming together suddenly in their present form. To be sure, intelligent design leaves that as a possibility. But intelligent design is also fully compatible with large-scale evolution over the course of natural history, all the way up to what biologists refer to as "common descent" (i.e., the full genealogical interconnectedness of all organisms). If our best science tells us that living things came together gradually over a long evolutionary history and that all living things are related by common descent, then so be it. Intelligent design can live with this result and indeed live with it cheerfully."

That is from http://www.theism.net/article/16
TEACHING INTELLIGENT DESIGN -- WHAT HAPPENED WHEN?
A RESPONSE TO EUGENIE SCOTT
-By William A. Dembski

There is a "But..." after that so I encourage reading the whole article.

Brent

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> From: Preston Garrison <garrisonp@uthscsa.edu>
> Date: 2005/02/15 Tue AM 08:36:56 GMT
> To: bdffoster@charter.net, ASA list <asa@calvin.edu>
> Subject: Re: Dembski and Morris
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> bdffoster wrote...
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> > When pressed most IDers like Dembski will admit they accept
> >micro-evolution, macro-evolution, and even common decent.
>
> Several years ago I suggested to Dembski in a question and answer
> session that the evidence for common descent of mammals is
> overwhelming, Dembski rejected that assertion. And Phillip Johnson
> accepts only microevolution. I heard him publicly mock and ridicule
> people who believe that evolution occurs under God's direction.
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