Re: [asa] Denyse's advice

Com on George. See below.

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>>> On 5/3/2007 at 4:24 PM, in message
<20070503212554.90F60712402@gray.dordt.edu>,
"George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "D. F. Siemens, Jr." <dfsiemensjr@juno.com>
> To: <gmurphy@raex.com>
> Cc: <wdwllace@sympatico.ca>; <esmartin@uoguelph.ca>;
<asa@lists.calvin.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 5:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [asa] Denyse's advice
> 
> 
>> George,
>> I don't understand why you don't approve of ID. Behe, in sworn
testimony
>> at Dover, said that the definition of science which will include ID
also
>> includes astrology. Do you have a problem with this?
> 
> I think Behe pretty much discredited himself at Dover, & not just by
the 
> astrology statement.  & as I noted earlier, Dembski's performance
tends in 
> the same direction.  (I think, BTW, that we can now see that his 
> conciliatory remarks about ID at the 2005 ASA meeting were probably 
> hypocritical.)  
George unless you really have some basis for that cut out that type of
remark.  I have no reason to doubt the communication that Bill or Mike
were making.
The ID movement is rapidly losing any claim in ever had to 
> be a group pursuing a scientific research project & is now just a
social 
> movement.  Unfortunately that doesn't mean that it may not grow in
influence 
> 
> on the ignorant - cf. what happened when L. Ron Hubbard turned the 
> pseudoscience of Dianetics into the religion of Scientology.
> 
This is simply ID bashing.  For pity's sake why compare him to ron
Hubbard.  that is hardly fair. 
I could go on but I will leave it at that.  Lets rise above the bashing
and deal with the issues we like or don't like.
> Shalom
> George
> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/ 
> 
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