Re: [asa] Can biology do better than faith?

From: David Campbell <pleuronaia@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Nov 26 2007 - 14:26:19 EST

As typical of pseudoscientific antireligious writing, the grasp on the
history of science is rather weak. It's open to question whether
heliocentrism was part of the charges against Bruno, but there was
quite a lot of other grounds for charges.

> > So, will science and religion find common ground, or at least agree to
> divide the fundamentals into mutually exclusive domains? A great many
> well-meaning scholars believe that such rapprochement is both possible and
> desirable. A few disagree, and I am one of them. I think Darwin would have
> held to the same position.

Presumably this thought was arrived at by carefully ignoring Darwin's
religious views in favor of wishful thinking.

-- 
Dr. David Campbell
425 Scientific Collections
University of Alabama
"I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"
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