Re: [asa] ID, TE, and the culture war--who is the audience?

I very much agree with David's points about the "biola school" of
evidentialist apologetics, as it interfaces with ID and TE. Very much.
Biola, IMO, is to be commended for taking the step of starting an MA program
on science and religion, around their own institutional distinctives and
strengths. They have assembled a highly qualified interdisciplinary faculty
for this purpose.

The one caution I would suggest here is as follows. It would IMO be unwise
for Biola to want its students all to come out committed to this particular
approach. That is, it wouldn't be good IMO for them to stress this as the
only good outcome, such that students are not exposed on a regular basis to
advocates for other approaches. I don't mean the visiting lecture or two,
from someone who takes a different approach; I mean the regular faculty
presence of a different voice. Particularly in graduate education, the
absence of such diversity is not a good thing. In a completely different
way, but related to this, the National Association of Scholars (a generally
very conservative group, concerned with combatting political correctness and
absolutely not very friendly to ID), has pointed out the danger to academe
in general, of having a whole generation of students shaped by institutions
that are essentially monolithic politically and philosophically. I'm with
them on that, insofar as it is true (and I think in many leading places it
is true), and I would suggest the same caution to Biola.

Ted

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Received on Mon Apr 30 12:58:12 2007