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

From: j burg <hossradbourne@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Feb 28 2008 - 09:41:32 EST

On 2/27/08, George Murphy <gmurphy@raex.com> wrote:
> I've resisted the temptation to get into this but now yield. The statement
> "evolution is compatible with religious faith" is ambiguous. If it means
> "There is at least one member of the class of religious faiths with which
> evolution is compatible" then it's true. & if it means "Evolution is
> compatible with every religious faith" then it isn't."

Yes, George. You are correct. But in some sense, every statement is
ambiguous (including this one). The first meaning is the most
charitable one to assume; that's what I was doing. I think that is the
biblical position.

jb

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