Re: ASA misrepresented in Nature

> Quoting Michael Lynch from his letter to Nature:
> <
> Think I'm exaggerating? To get a good idea of what IDers would have
> the face of science look like, check out the journal Perspectives on
> Science and Christian Faith (http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF.html).
>
> It looks like he clicked on a search engine,
> typed in some key words that called up ASA,
> clicked on "publications...", read the first
> title, and wrote up this letter. I thought
> letters to Nature were suppose to be scholarly.
> Perhaps Nature's severe review process has
> broken down somewhere.

Lets cut Nature some slack. I thought that the Nature editorial was
quite good and fair. Letters to the editor are there to express a
range of views of the readership.

I don't see that either the editors of Nature, or even Michael Lynch,
need to be the subject of criticism. Use the attention given to the
topic to educate the readers of Nature about the ASA and about the
false foundation of the popular science/faith warfare metaphor.

Keith
Received on Thu May 19 12:14:27 2005