Re: [asa] ICR's GENE project - ethics

Perhaps if ICR can be made to look laughable (i.e., not just laughed at but
deserving of laughter) then some naive Christians will be warned away from
it. Again it's important to make a distinction between the hard-core YEC
cadres who probably will never in this life waken from their delusions &
conservative Christians who are susceptible to YEC but not wedded to it. We
should try not to offend the latter but should not enable the former. If we
can convince people that they shouldn't be taken seriously, we should.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

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From: <mrb22667@kansas.net>
To: "Carol or John Burgeson" <burgytwo@juno.com>
Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: [asa] ICR's GENE project - ethics

Questions of the research ethics aside for the moment: here is what the
result
of such "messing" would be. Once they became aware of it, they would feel
yet
again confirmed in their warfare mode of thought -- persecuted not only by
the
scientific establishment, but by Christian brothers and sisters, no less
(whose
religious sincerity would then be questioned). Whatever the merits or lack
thereof of such research efforts, mockery will just entrench the
polarizations
further, no matter how well deserved it may actually be.

Truth & reality at their very core are just brute facts that ICR folks (and
all
of us) have to deal with in the end.

Human reaction to mockery and marginalization are the brute facts that we
have
to learn not to ignore if we are ever going to be serious about deflating
some
of the steam out of the warfare juggernaut in the U.S.

--Merv

Quoting Carol or John Burgeson <burgytwo@juno.com>:

> I've thought a lot about this subject in the past couple of days.
>
> Some here seem to be arguing that, since ICR is a fraudulent
> organization, it would be perfectly ethical to mess with their research.
>
> At least that's the only argument I've seen. Is there another one?
>
> Is the argument strong enough? I do not believe that it is.
>
> Convince me.
>
> Burgy
>
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