[asa] Collins on Colbert report

Received this from our college chaplain today:

I have information that Francis Collins, son of Fletcher and Margaret
Collins and head of the Human Genome Project will appear on The Colbert
Report on Comedy Central on December 7, 11:30 p.m. The show is repeated the
next evening at 8:00. Francis grew up as Mary Baldwin child, so to speak,
is a graduate of Lee High and has both a Ph.D. and M.D. He was our
commencement speaker one year.
 
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Louise M. Freeman, PhD
Psychology Dept
Mary Baldwin College
Staunton, VA 24401
540-887-7326
FAX 540-887-7121

-----Original Message-----
From: Pim van Meurs <pimvanmeurs@yahoo.com>
To: "Alexanian, Moorad" <alexanian@uncw.edu>
Cc: "Jim Armstrong" <jarmstro@qwest.net>, <asa@calvin.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:27:06 -0800
Subject: Re: [asa] Fwd: Denyse reviews Collins

Think "boundary and initial conditions". No double talk, just simple
science.

On Nov 29, 2006, at 8:06 PM, Alexanian, Moorad wrote:

> Your characterization of evolutionary theory sounds like mere
> double talk to me. A physicist would say that given a system with
> known dynamical laws; the system would develop in time given some
> initial condition. However, without specifying the initial
> condition and the dynamical laws that govern the temporal behavior
> of the system, the statement is too general to be of any scientific
> value.
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> Moorad
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> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu on behalf of Jim Armstrong
> Sent: Wed 11/29/2006 10:16 PM
> Cc: asa@calvin.edu
> Subject: Re: [asa] Fwd: Denyse reviews Collins
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> Evolutionary theory does not predict any selection force, only
> acknowledges that they exist and finds them centrally influential
> in the evolutionary process. JimA
>
> Alexanian, Moorad wrote:
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> Mass extinctions are historical events that are not explainable by
> evolutionary theory since the theory was not able to predicate
> them. Do all the suicides committed have something to do with
> evolution? Let us not lose our commonsense by adhering too strongly
> to particular worldviews.
>
> Moorad
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> From: Pim van Meurs [mailto:pimvanmeurs@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wed 11/29/2006 1:09 PM
> To: Alexanian, Moorad
> Cc: asa@calvin.edu
> Subject: Re: [asa] Fwd: Denyse reviews Collins
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> On Nov 29, 2006, at 5:59 AM, Alexanian, Moorad wrote:
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> I am not defending ID but exposing the fallacy of your argument
> against
> it since your arguments apply equally to Darwinian Theory of
> evolution.
> The theory of how the dinosaurs became extinct by a meteor impact
> in the
> Yucatan peninsula http://www.redorbit.com/news/display/?id=747011#
> has
> nothing to do with evolutionary theory. If Newton did not know
> how the
>
>
> To state that mass extinctions have nothing to do with evolution
> ignores the relevance of such instances on understanding why there
> are no more dinosaurs left in our day and age. So yes, extinction is
> distinctly an evolutionary mechanism as it affects the species.
>
>
>
> solar system came into being, evolutionary theory certainly does not
> explain that either from the assumptions evolutionary theory makes.
> Similarly, with all the examples you give. Get real man!
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> Of course evolution does not explain that which it cannot explain.
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> Moorad
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