Re: [asa] Medicine and Evolution

Hi Bill,

It occurs to me that your remark in the below succinctly captures in
vitro Gregory Arago's objection to talk about "evolution"

YEC's don't actually object to "evolution" if by it one means JUST
change within "kinds".

Problem is that there is a huge spectrum of meaning from the above all
the way to the all embracing philosophy of the social Darwinists.

Personal experience is that there's enough flexibility of meaning to
keep everybody miserable!

The pertinent question then becomes - in "whose evolution" is one's GP
to believe? Which is, I think, a question even more contentious than
that originally put.

Blessings,
Murray Hogg

Bill Hamilton wrote:
> One of the frustrating aspects of the creation/evolution debate is that
> creationists generally insist that evolution be defined as "goo to you".
> I have tried to point out that the academic definition of evolution is
> not offensive at all, with little success.
>
> William E. (Bill) Hamilton, Ph.D. Member ASA
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> "...If God is for us, who is against us?" Rom 8:31
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Received on Sat May 31 18:13:38 2008