[asa] Saving Darwin

I want to thank Steve and everyone who engaged my posting on this
listserv. This was an animated and civil conversation, not always the
case for this topic.

Someone commented that they were glad I "stuck my neck out." I did
this deliberately with Saving Darwin, my book that came out this week,
but I don't know what the result will be. So far, people are
interested in engaging the topic. But there are also large
constituencies that are aggressively hostile to such ideas. One such
constituency is trying to get Richard Colling fired from Olivet. Not
long ago Darrel Falk at Point Loma was under attack. And we all know
the Van Til story. The president at Eastern Nazarene is supportive,
but has taken time to write a letter to the trustees discouraging them
from getting alarmed at what they might hear.

The issue is politically complex because most of us with the time and
opportunity to dig seriously into these topics are professors at
Christian Colleges and all those colleges get at least some of their
support from militant fundamentalists who see people like me as the
enemy of their faith. And, in some sense, I am the enemy of their
particular understanding of Christianity.

I plan to reflect on these things a bit more going forward. If you are
interested, you are welcome to stop by
www.scienceandreligiontoday.blogspot.com.

-- 
Karl Giberson, Ph.D,
www.karlgiberson.com
Professor of Physics, Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, MA
Director of the Forum on Faith & Science, Gordon College, Wenham, MA.
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