Re: Kansas munchkins (as Gould will call them)

George's points about the theological shortcomings of IDs are on target.
Generally speaking, there are very few (if any) theologians involved with
ID; most IDs don't read contemporary theology except to find places where
they believe "Darwinism" has "corrupted" theology; they lack discernment
partly out of ignorance of the large range of modern stuff, which does take
time and experience to sort out, and partly b/c they do want to keep things
in an "us vs them" mentality--that suits their political strategy just fine,
thank you, while it does shortchange the truth.

A good number of them do not understand even something as simple as the
classical (not modern) theological view of concurrence--that God does things
in and through secondary causes. They seem to me almost incapable of
understanding such a view, or else they seem to think that this type of
thinking started only after Darwin, in order to make an "accommodation".

Nevertheless, I still say that many of us perceive the truth differently
from many of them. They do see things much more simply, which hurts the
truth when they speak the truth as they see it.

ted
Received on Sat May 21 15:15:05 2005