have we forgotten who the enemy is?

This is a quote from the essay from Dembski responding to Henry Morris.

"He (Morris) sees intelligent design's focus on an unspecified
designer--indeed, a designer who need not even be a theistic creator God--as
disingenuous and a matter of expedience, done simply 'to build a very large
tent, allowing anyone except pure materialists to take refuge there.' "

I am not sure why the discussion on this list is always so negative against
both ID and YEC. IMO in the big picture, this battle is a minor one. The
most important belief that we all have, and share with our creationist
brothers, is the Gospel. Most evangelical Christians dont really care that
much about the creation/evolution issue, knowing Christ is much more
important.

It seems to me that we are losing sight of the real enemy, which is
philosophical materialism, atheistic naturalism. We should be reaching out
to scientist non believers, and showing them that the Bible, and science are
compatible. This issue is more about apologetics than polemics.

Certainly there are things I disagree with YEC about. And there are things
about ID I disagree with too. But I dont see how one cannot embrace some
of the things that ID proponents are trying to do, and still hold to TE.

I honestly think that trying to come up with a mathematical model to
identify design, IS scientific. There are going to be spots in the
scientifc account of creation/evolution that will never have a purely
naturalistic explanation. It has to be that way, because at some point, God
intervened, and supernatural causes are going to be the only explanation.
And if there is a quantitative way to say, look at this, it is clearly
designed, then that is going to be a point that the IDers are going to win.
Received on Wed Feb 16 08:53:18 2005