Re: [asa] Theodosius Dobzhansky

Denyse seems to be wrong as usual. I am reading Greene and Ruse's
article on letters between D and Greene and D is clear about his
faith.

Journalism requires double checking one's source and careful research.
I see little of either one in Denyse's musings.

On 4/16/07, rjschn39@bellsouth.net <rjschn39@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Thanks for this note, Ted. I look forward to reading this new book of Dobzhansky's faith.
>
> You may know that the Dobzhanky papers are in the posession of the American Philosophical Society. I trust the author will have studied them carefully for D's religious views. But readers can also go to his 1975 article in The American Biology Teacher entitled "Nothing in Biology makes Sense Except in the Light of Evoluton." There he is quite clear that he integrates his understanding of creation with evolution. He writes that it is wrong to treat the two as mutually exclusive: "I am a creationist _and_ an evolutionist." He also pays a tribute to the evolutionary spirituality of Teilhard de Chardin, whose writings he obviously admires, and who ideas influenced his own..
>
> If you go to this link, http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/d/doby.htm#bioghist, you find a brief biography which includes some comments on his religious views. He is said to have criticized Whiteheadian process theology which is characterized (I"m not sure if by D) as a non-Christian form of religion.
>
> Dobzhansky once told historical John Greene, when Greene referred to Ernst Mayr. "Don't put me in the same group with Mayr; he is an agnostic and I am an Orthodox Christian.
>
> Bob Schneider
> >
> > From: "Ted Davis" <TDavis@messiah.edu>
> > Date: 2007/04/16 Mon PM 01:17:00 EDT
> > To: <asa@calvin.edu>, <pleuronaia@gmail.com>
> > Subject: [asa] Theodosius Dobzhansky
> >
> > Concerning the religious views of Theodosius Dobzhansky, I call attention to
> > the following book, which is to be officially released this week:
> >
> > http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vID=56803&vLang=F&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=3
> >
> > I haven't seen the full version of Jitse's essay on Dobzhansky, so I'm
> > looking forward to it. I wrote the piece on Michael Pupin, a Serbian
> > Orthodox believer whose theological views were very traditional (much more
> > so, I think, than Dobzhansky's, but I need to see the full essay to have
> > confidence in this). As far as I know, the essays in this book are the only
> > ones like them, the only studies in existence about modern Orthodox
> > scientists and their beliefs. Russian Orthodox physicist Alexei Nesteruk
> > has written an interesting book, "Light from the East," but he doesn't write
> > about other leading scientists from the modern period.
> >
> > http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3664/is_200404/ai_n9374297
> >
> > Ted
> >
> >
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