RE: [asa] Education, Medicine, and Evolution

Ted:

I agree with you. I have been a scientist and a Christian for over forty years and see no problem in integrating the two on a practical basis as long as I keep my theology as the priority. My point is that "official" definitions of science, as offered by AAAS and NAS, are not being challenged openly by Christians who are scientists. We Christians try to dance around the problem and end up with some form of "supernatural explanations have no place in science". But what are we saying when we say this? What are the implications of these kinds of statements? The comments of individuals are one thing. But I don't see anyone saying that there should be wide-spread disagreement among Christians with these statements made by organizations that claim to speak for science. Debating individuals is valuable, but where do we take on the Establishment (good grief! I sound like a hippy of the 60s. I did go to college in the 60s, but my only "mind-altering substance" was black coffe!
 e and I had a crew-cut).

Do I make any sense with my basic question?

Don
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From: Ted Davis [TDavis@messiah.edu]
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 10:02 AM
To: asa; Donald F Calbreath
Subject: RE: [asa] Education, Medicine, and Evolution

Now, I respond directly to Donald Calbreath, who asks:

And then there are the recent statements by Coyne who says that religious
and science cannot exist together. He goes on to advocate that religion
be abolished since it is incompatible with science.

Now, who are we to believe?

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My reply, Don, is taken from one of the blurbs for Giberson's book, as
follows:

"Few writers have poured more fuel on the recent science-religion
controversies than such religion-bashers as Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan, and
Stephen Weinberg. In six perky profiles two Christian scholars critically,
but fairly, examine the anti-religious claims of these and other scientific
"oracles," finding them no more "scientific" than the mutterings of
creationists."" --Ronald L. Numbers, author of The Creationists: From
Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design

As Ron says, these claims are not scientific, any more than the mutterings
of Ken Ham are scientific.

Ted

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Received on Mon Jun 2 13:20:56 2008