Re: [asa] YEC and ID arguments

> Again, read Dembski's chapter on epistemic support that I referenced. I
> don't think there's any such "insinuation" at all. This seems like an
> unwarranted attribution of motive to me.

I was not referring to the book you cite. We had discussions
on that in 99 and I even recall George Murphy called it
"engaging". On other discussions we have had over the years
on Dembski, there is some visible change, and I complained
that it didn't fit his demeanor in what I had read of him. It seems
from those discussions that he was gradually being influenced
by Johnson. This is what I mean by "the rhetoric that comes
out elsewhere".

From the other side, what you refer to as the intelligentsia,
yes there does seem to be a tendency amongst some powerful
people to distort things, and anyone who says anything good
about ID is tarred and feathered with the worst of the YEC lot.
They also encourage the mob; those who "follow a multitude to
do evil". We do need to take care not to join the multitude.

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Received on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:49:04 EDT