Re: [asa] Keller on Evolution

The underlying problem is that this is not merely a question of
exactly how one labels categories in areas where history and science
overlap. Dealing with historical events does indeed provide certain
challenges, though there's a thorough continuum between fully
experimental science (even that seeks to replicate what was done in a
similar experiment) to investigations of past events that we cannot
replicate more than minor bits of (e.g., the Big Bang). The real
problem is that it's a popular dodge to dismiss historical science as
inferior and unreliable, as a way to justify young earth or other
scientifically untenable claims. (NB-I do not wish to imply that
"scientifically tenable" is the most important criterion for assessing
something, except possibly in the case of the claim that something is
scientific.)

Such a position is utterly at odds with Christianity. Unless
historical data about the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus are
reliable, we should go find some other set of beliefs.

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