Re: [asa] Grandma's wisdom might be good

>>> On 10/18/2006 at 5:17 PM, in message
<a7a4e9650610181517n39727f3vc6cdf0a4891228c6@mail.gmail.com>, "David
Campbell"
<pleuronaia@gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
>
>
> I'm not entirely sure what you're thinking about for getting a
response.
> It's certainly true that the average biology PhD knows little about
many
> areas of biology outside his own specialty, and that there's much
need to
> connect to the average person, who may have more sense than a given
PhD. At
> the same time, appeals to the average person against the experts are
very
> often made by cranks with a plausible-sounding but incorrect claim.

Dave,

I would tend to agree with you that often the lay folks look to their
own sometimes not too good experts that work outside the constraining
influence of established science. What I am suggesting is the wisdom of
parents and "grandma's) that say that the schools removing all teaching
of parental moral values and teaching children that God had nothing to
do with the Creation of creatures (and that is how simple texts often
tell it) are wrong. They know that it is radically different from their
faith and the teaching of the Scripture. We can sit here and show them
that a TE position can really believe in God, but tell me of any Highs
School text book that teaches science from a Christian perspective and
tells kids that an option is to believe that God created the world
using evolution. I am not TE but I would prefer that to the current text
in High School or even most in intro college.

The people fighting for a different voice in the schools has not
traditionally been the ASA (although they did make a great try once),
but the YEc and now the ID has been much stronger in trying to offer
alternatives to current dualistic secularism in the science. And yes I
know individual schools may not listen that much to the state and can
get away with hiring Christian teachers who teach more from their
Christian perspective especially in rural areas.

bcc to class and Gerry M.

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