Fair enough. But it is the organization I called "dozy," not the people.
(People always behave worse in organizations.)
I stand by "dozy" because I don't think ASA grasps the SIGNIFICANCE of
Phillip Johnson's point that few zealous naturalists would see any important
difference between Dembski and Miller.
And the naturalists have almost all the power in science today, as you very
well know.
You will be classed on the ID side even if you cash in your career to spend
all your time attacking Dembski. (Please don't interpret me as suggesting
that anyone would waste their time like that; I am saying that if you did,
it wouldn't change anything.)
cheers, Denyse
-----Original Message-----
From: Iain Strachan [mailto:igd.strachan@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 8:14 AM
To: Denyse O'Leary
Cc: asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: Today's blogs at the Post-Darwinist 2005 05 22
Denyse,
I don't think you're going to achieve anything other than antagonise the ASA
list members, by referring to ASA as a "dozy organization". Insulting
people rarely achieves anything constructive.
Iain
On 5/22/05, Denyse O'Leary <oleary@sympatico.ca> wrote:
Today's blogs at the Post-Darwinist 2005 05 22
American Scientific Affiliation rejects claim that it promotes intelligent
design
According to ASA executive director Randy Isaac, "While some prominent ASA
members such as George Murphy and Keith Miller, both cited in Nature 434,
1062-1065 (28 April 2005), are critics of ID, other members such as William
Dembski are advocates of the movement."
Good thing Dembski had enough sense to stay a member of that dozy
organization, but really, isn't it time for them to just wake up and smell
the house burning?
Read more at http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/
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