Re: ASA misrepresented in Nature

>>> Peter Cook <pwcook@optonline.net> 5/19/2005 8:48:49 PM >>>writes:
Randy,

Good job, but you might want to emphasize the "as science" and "not" in
the
first sentence of last paragraph. Unfortunately, these distinctions are
not
often made at the level of high school, and what is known/knowable by
science is often left sufficiently unclear as to be confused with all that
can be known. I suspect this is part of the cause of the concern of
parents - an implicit assumption that science (from Latin scire, "to
know")
is able to encompass all that we might call truth.

Ted replies:
And herein lies the heart of the problem, when it comes to ID vs TE. The
IDs want cultural transformation through the restoration of theism at the
heart of academic life. Not that TEs wouldn't like that, but we generally
don't see science as holding the key to this. For the IDs, however, science
is the final arbiter of truth (a religious role it has had since the
so-called Enlightenment, and incidentally they are correct about this point)
in our society; if it isn't *scientifically* verifiable, it ain't TRUTH.
Therefore, they insist on finding evidence--irrefutable evidence--for the
fingers of God in nature. TEs often respond by denying natural theology any
force. Both routes are problemmatic for me.

Ted
Received on Fri May 20 08:40:22 2005