Re: "The Goal of ID is to establish a theocratic state"

Read
The republican war on science
by Chris Mooney

That will enlighten you!

Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
To: <jcannon@washjeff.edu>; <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: "The Goal of ID is to establish a theocratic state"

> This may be _Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design_
> by Barbara Forrest and Paul Gross. You can find info at
> http://www.creationismstrojanhorse.com/ . I haven't read the book but
> from what I know of the authors & have heard about the book, it sounds
> right.
>
> There are certainly legitimate & realistic concerns about the influence of
> the religious right in the political arena today. But the words
> "theocracy" & "theocratic" are vastly overused & overextended. A
> theocracy - literally rule by God - is government by religious
> authorities - priests &c. It is misused by people who apply it to any
> religious influence on political leaders. E.g., I heard one speaker say
> that Bush's 2001 decision on embryonic stem cells meant that we now had a
> theocracy. This is nonsense, whatever you may think of that decision.
>
> The use of "theocracy" in that way is kind of a mirror image of the way
> Johnson et al use "naturalism." The 1st uses an evil sounding word for
> any mention of God & the 2d uses one for anything that doesn't mention
> God.
>
> Shalom
> George
> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Cannon" <jcannon@jcannon.washjeff.edu>
> To: <asa@calvin.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 8:12 AM
> Subject: "The Goal of ID is to establish a theocratic state"
>
>
>>I found myself in the odd situation of defending ID defenders last
>> night when the speaker said with a straight face that the goal of ID
>> was to establish a theocratic state.
>>
>> When asked she cited a book that had "the wedge" in the title (two
>> authors) which have a vague feeling that I have seen before. Can
>> someone give me a short summary of what the book says. I suspect the
>> assertion may involve the Discovery Institute's involvement in
>> conservative political causes. She had read Reason in the Balance so
>> it would appear that an extrapolation of what Johnson says there was
>> part of the claim.
>>
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Received on Thu Jan 19 09:45:37 2006