Re: [asa] RE: Public questions for Denyse O'Leary

> But it doesn't explain why, when a big atheist road show fronts atheism
> as the logical outcome of Darwinism, I actually see the ID guys rushing
> in to do something about it - however ham-handed you may think them -
> but ASA? Nada!

All too often, the ID guys are rushing in to help the atheists.
Although that's not their intent, by endorsing the claim that
evolution implies atheism or by claiming that faith implies rotten
science, they're doing the church no good. It wouldn't hurt, either,
if Johnson, Dawkins, AIG, etc. showed some clue about what
Christianity is really about. ID has made a big deal of attacking
atheism, but in reality any view that does not accord with the gospel
is equally wrong and dangerous, whether it's Wells' views or Dawkins'.

I believe that ASA would generally like to have a larger impact.
However, the rather limited funding and the difficulty of
marketing/publicizing rational discussion relative to yelling
extremists (such as Dawkins or most professional young earthers) do
not help. It also doesn't help that the extremists see moderation as
an enemy, so ASA gets tarred as a fount of bogus antievolutionary
science and as compromising with atheism in the propaganda of both
sides.

-- 
Dr. David Campbell
425 Scientific Collections
University of Alabama
"I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"
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