Re: [asa] Conservative Christianity and Evolution

I watched the whole lecture and found it outstanding. The contrast to
Dawkins could not be greater eg

> Richard Dawkins, who holds the interesting title of “Charles Simonyi professor of
> the public understanding of science” at Oxford University
> Belief in God is not only a delusion, he argues, but a “pernicious” one.

Dawkins style of writing just feeds right into peoples fear of godless
scientists who bend science to promote evolution. IMHO Dawkins writings
are a big boost to YEC and the ICR.

The only thing I objected to was that Dr. Scott said that she
did not believe in evolution and then a few lines later said that she
accepted the theory of evolution. It struck me as cheap theater. In
such a case I would use believe in the sense of case 2 and 3 below as a
shorthand for I think that a certain theory/practice etc is somewhat to
highly likely. During my work career on visits to the USofA I also found
the same kind of
objections to use of the word believe usually seeming to imply that it
always had to be a religious belief, case 4 below. Case 1 was also
used but case 2 and 3 seem to be falling out of favour in the US.

 From an online dictionary the definition of believe

> 1. (transitive) To accept that someone is telling the truth.
>
> * Why did I ever *believe* you?
>
> 2. (transitive) To accept as true.
>
> * If you *believe* the numbers, you'll agree we need change.
>
> 3. (transitive) To consider likely.
>
> * I *believe* it might rain tomorrow.
>
> 4. (intransitive) To have religious faith; to believe in
>
> a greater truth
> .
>
> * After that night in the church, I *believed*.
>

Dave

PvM wrote:
> Various interesting lectures at
>
> http://web.cortland.edu/communication/fundamental/com342.html
>
> Including Eugenie Scott's "Conservative Christianity and Evolution"
>
> A lecture in the SUNY-Cortland series, "Fundamentally Speaking". Dr.
> Scott will define "conservative Christian", and discuss how
> conservative Christianity, usually considered hostile to evolution,
> nonetheless has adherents who accept evolution and see it as part of
> God's creative plan -- a theological view known as "theistic
> evolution" which is usually associated with Catholics and mainstream
> Christians.
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Received on Wed Feb 14 08:00:32 2007