Re: [asa] Education, Medicine, and Evolution

Bill & Rich,

I do appreciate all your thoughts. My field for the past 23 years
has been software development.
But, like many, I was ignorant of the theory structures behind CS,
things that help build better applications.
Reading Suppe showed me these model and mechanism/schema theory structures.

Should I be surprised that even some in the biological sciences might
be more concerned
with the day-to-day production of their jobs than with the theory
structures they are constrained by?
I don't know the answer to that question.

Over the past year I've made a few foolish or otherwise short-sighted
statements on some of the
evolution blogs. I'm becoming a little more calculated and
calculated these days.

I posted on my blog what I thought was a fair question for
evolutionists regarding time and
the number of genetic changes needed to reach
humanity. Unfortunately one evol didn't think
it was even a reasonable question. I'll post it here later for some
analysis and reasonable critique.

At 06:52 PM 5/31/2008, you wrote:
>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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Sincerely,

Collin Brendemuehl
http://www.brendemuehl.net

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose"
                                                 -- Jim Elliott

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Received on Sun Jun 1 08:02:50 2008