Re: [asa] Book TV on C-SPAN 2

Pim,

I agree that West did not present Miller's theological views fairly.
That's why I said in my first post that I find the truth somewhere in the
middle--ie, somewhere between your view and West's.

On the constitutional issues, I'm with West. Here is what you say in your
most recent post, Pim:

<Furthermore, I am not impressed by West's assertion that this is a one
sided
representation of religion, let alone a violation of the establishment
clause of the constitution. After all, one may point to a valid secular
purpose to point out that evolutionary theory is not necessarily at odds
with religious faith. It is far different from the position that
evolutionary theory and fact are at odds with religious faith, a position
which serves no valid secular purposes.>

How does one religious position on evolution have a valid secular purpose,
when another doesn't? You and I agree that one has much greater value than
the other, but how can we make that determination without favoring one
religious view over another?

Ted

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Received on Tue Feb 26 14:18:32 2008