Re: Today's blogs 2

MessageDenyse writes:

If there is evidence for God's work in nature, can that evidence be admitted, or is the evidence itself actually anti-science?

Controversies like Kansas are simply a proxy for that question because it is a question about who gets to say what science is.

If anyone should say what science is, it should be the people who practice it, not an emeritus law professors who buried himself in books for a summer and came out a ninety-day wonder (for you younger folks, the last phrase was used of 2nd lieutenants who finished basic training during WWII). I also would prefer a biologist or whatever stripe to define biological science, and not an engineer or a physicist.

Bob
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Denyse O'Leary
  To: glennmorton@entouch.net ; asa@calvin.edu
  Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 9:28 AM
  Subject: RE: Today's blogs 2

  Thanks for your kind support, Glenn.

  In fact I respect ASA and its work.

  That is why I said what I did.

  ASA has made a big error in my view, in not grandfathering the ID controversy but rather trying to defend "theistic evolution" over against ID when the big sci orgs that have all the power and influence don't really care much about the difference between the two - except when they can misrepresent TE to try to disarm all ideas of design, meaning, or purpose in nature. ("Joe Schmoe is a scientist who calls himself a Christian but realizes that science and faith are completely separate." = science is truth and faith is nonsense. That is why they are separate. If they were both really true, they could not be separate because they would have to both inhabit reality and there are not two realities.)

  So the real controversy is, who gets to say what science is?

  If there is evidence for God's work in nature, can that evidence be admitted, or is the evidence itself actually anti-science?

  Controversies like Kansas are simply a proxy for that question because it is a question about who gets to say what science is.

  cheers, Denyse
Received on Tue May 24 14:43:09 2005