Re: RATE Vol. II

Various views on the age of the earth, including objections to an old earth
based on radioactive dating, have long since been given a fair hearing.
Just because some diehards can get enough money to publish & promote
material promoting YEC doesn't mean that it should be given _another_ fair
hearing. If we take that route then it never ends.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Freeman, Louise Margaret" <lfreeman@mbc.edu>
To: "ASA" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 8:01 AM
Subject: RE: RATE Vol. II

>
>> I suggest we devote one issue of PSCF to old earth evidence submitted
>> by
>> all the members with the best articles selected by Roman Miller. Make
>> it a special issue where we can order hundreds of copies each and hand
>> them out to whoever we think can best benefit from them. The numbers
>> of
>> new members we can recruit from that alone would more than make up for
>> any lost from taking a stance in the first place.
>
> A special journal issue with public access (print or online) could be a
> great idea, even if
> ASA is not ready to take a formal old-earth position. I am reminded of a
> scientific journal
> who devoted some extra space to Peter Duesberg's "HIV doesn't cause AIDS"
> idea a few
> years ago. As I recall, Duesberg and supporters contibuted a few articles,
> ands responded
> to ones from the other side, but there were many more from the HIV causes
> AIDS camp
> (reflecting their overwhelming numerical majority) and they were invited
> to write responses
> to Duesberg articles. The staff editorial for this issue, signed by the
> majority of editiors,
> said that they felt the bulk of the evidence supported an HIV-AIDS
> connection.
>
> The key is to take the wind out of the "we can't get a fair hearing" sail.
> Many would argue
> that the "ID is a valid scientific theory" camp got a perfectely fair
> hearing in Dover; they
> simpy didn't convince the judge. The claims of RATE II could be given a
> similar treatment.
> I wonder if ASA and ACG couldundertake a joint project?
>
> It would take an editorial team with the wisdom of Solomon to keep the
> scientific
> disagreements from becoming name-calling fests, but Christians, of all
> people, should be
> able to manage that.
>
>
>
Received on Mon May 22 08:53:52 2006