[asa] John West confirms my interpretation of his view

I received the following from John West, and with his implicit permission
(he copied the ASA list, but I doubt it will go through) here is his comment
on my post.

Ted,

Thanks for cc'ing me on this. You do get the precise point I was
making. I make clear in my talk that an impartial discussion of
different religious views is OF COURSE constitutionally OK--although
I do question whether such discussions should be in science class if
Darwinists really want to keep the focus on science. But, as I
pointed out, what Eugenie is advocating is NOT an impartial
discussion of religious views. It is the government promotion of one
particular religious view toward religion. My comments regarding Ken
Miller's book were similar. Last year at a conference I was at Miller
boasted that his book was used by teachers in science classes
specifically to help students come to a better understanding of God
and evolution. Miller's book would of course be a good resource for a
discussion as ONE position in the debate. But that's not what Miller
was talking about. He was praising the use of his book as the correct
way for religious people to view evolution.

Whatever one thinks of the Supreme Court's religion jurisprudence,
there is no way in my view that such one-sided promotion of a
particular religious view of evolution is constitutionally
permissible under existing precedents--again, another point I clearly
made in my presentation.

John

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Received on Tue Feb 26 13:00:25 2008