Re: [asa] YEC and ID arguments

Please take my comments in a sensible way. Geology is my field and my understanding of other sciences is limited. However I have come across many flaws in YEC arguments there, but prefer to leave them to the expert.

When it comes to Information theory or psychology my understanding is even weaker so I keep my trap firmly shut. Then I am totally dependent on experts in the field.

I have read Dembski non-mathematical stuff and find it wanting in many ways - even if I was half-convinced for a time.

Michael
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Gregory Arago
  To: asa@calvin.edu
  Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:48 PM
  Subject: Re: [asa] YEC and ID arguments

  "I have read vast amounts of YEC and ID literature of all sorts. As I unravelled any scientific argument in them (had to be geology as that is my field) I
  found that they were ALWAYS marked by inaccuracies..." - Michael Roberts

  'They,' as the quote makes clear, refers only to YEC or ID arguments in geology (with absolutist language any argument, ALWAYS to boot!). Wouldn't it be nice if YEC or ID had to do only with geology...or with natural science only, for that matter? As if it/they had nothing to do information theory or psychology.

  Please excuse if the 'blinded by one's worldview' brush paints both ways, in the sense that TE, ID and YEC all have ideological components - none is entirely neutral, i.e. just the facts without hermeneutics.

  Ifffff a person could make a case against evolution outside of Michael's discipline of choice, does anyone think he could get outside of his worldview to openly consider it as even a possibility?

  Sometimes, it really seems necessary to be defend ID and even YEC against TE's when they over-speak themselves (as rarely as that may be) in support of evolutionary universalism.

  G.A.

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Received on Sun Oct 22 15:09:59 2006