Re: [asa] Darwin's Deadly Legacy

From: Robert Schneider <rjschn39@bellsouth.net>
Date: Mon Aug 28 2006 - 14:45:47 EDT

Michael,

If you're correct then the thing to do in any conversation or public
"discourse" with Iders is to pin them down on common descent and the age of
the earth, and not let them squirm out of it.

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Roberts" <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk>
To: "Robert Schneider" <rjschn39@bellsouth.net>; "American Scientific
Affiliation" <asa@calvin.edu>; "Keith Miller" <kbmill@ksu.edu>
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: [asa] Darwin's Deadly Legacy

> Bob
>
> I agree with Keith on this one. ID has shifted in a YEC direction over the
> last 6 years and I reckon that soon ID will be caught between a rock and a
> hard place (one dated at October 4004BC and the other 4.2 by). Each Ider
> will have to choose which way to jump
>
> Michael
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Schneider" <rjschn39@bellsouth.net>
> To: "American Scientific Affiliation" <asa@calvin.edu>; "Keith Miller"
> <kbmill@ksu.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 10:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [asa] Darwin's Deadly Legacy
>
>
>> Ooblog's piece on the Kennedy film includes an email that the blogger
>> wrote to Michael Behe regarding his participation in this production.
>> Behe wrote back to say:
>>
>> I'm "associated" with it only in the sense that a clip of my appearance
>> on a TV show of Dr. Kennedy's from years ago apparently is used in the
>> film. I didn't know this program was in the works, have had no
>> conversations with anyone from Coral Ridge about it, and had no input
>> into it.
>>
>> Best wishes.
>>
>> Mike Behe
>>
>> Add one more note of chicanery to the others. I wonder if the same is
>> true of the Wells appearance. It would be good to get a response from
>> him. It may be that Kennedy did him the way he did Collins and Behe.
>>
>> I still tend to think that the YEC people are doing most of the linking
>> with ID rather than the other way around. The ID people have made the
>> mistake of dancing with the Devil, as the saying goes, and they're
>> discovering that this fiddler doesn't stop.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Keith Miller" <kbmill@ksu.edu>
>> To: "American Scientific Affiliation" <asa@calvin.edu>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 3:03 PM
>> Subject: [asa] Darwin's Deadly Legacy
>>
>>
>>>I have recently read some descriptions of the D. James Kennedy film by
>>>those who have seen it. Those appearing in the film include prominently
>>>Ann Coulter who presents herself as an authority on Darwinism, along
>>>with Ken Ham, Jonathan Wells, and Mike Behe. Unfortunately the
>>>appearance by Francis Collins has NOT been removed, despite Francis's
>>>complaint and the promise to remove his video appearance.
>>>
>>> It seems that the DI fellows are moving more and more to an
>>> uncompromising position and more publicly allying themselves with YECs
>>> and those on the political extreme. It really seems that the ID
>>> movement is collapsing into just another expression of YEC.
>>>
>>> The continued inclusion of Collins is just inexcusable. This type of
>>> unethical behavior for me is the most troubling and the most damaging
>>> to the public perception of evangelicalism.
>>>
>>> Keith
>>>
>>>
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