Re: [asa] Education, Medicine, and Evolution

Rich wrote

So, if you are an evangelical lay person there is no need to wring your
hands and say woe is me. You can find out what is going on if you go to
the right sources and apply enough effort. We live in an age where the
information is freely available to anyone. What you will also find is
that the professionals and specialists will respect you for what you
are doing and will help you if you are struggling. Being deliberately
ignorant and then attacking those same specialists only brings, well,
contempt.

Bill:
Absolutely. Like Rich, I'm an engineer. I believe the most important skill I learned in graduate school was the ability to learn about a new field. I wouldn't try to do original research in an area like evolutionary biology, but I have read some of the literature and learned from it. Most secular scientists would appreciate answering intelligent questions from an evangelical, and if there were more evangelicals asking intelligent questions, evangelicals would have a better reputation among scientists, and would probably win more scientists to Christ.

 William E. (Bill) Hamilton, Ph.D. Member ASA
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Received on Sat May 31 18:53:08 2008