[asa] Re: [asa] Theistic Evolutionists Close Ranks — Let the Bloodletting Begin!

Hi Dave W,

“Could someone please explain how if ID is supposed to be religiously
neutral, this post belongs on UcD.”

The *concept* of ID is religiously neutral, as a design inference does not
depend on a necessary assumption or conclusion that the designer is God.
However, it is clear that most of those who use the concept of ID as a tool
in the Culture Wars are religiously motivated. You see the same thing in
the ID Movement’s mirror image – the New Atheist movement. Science is
religiously neutral, but that doesn’t stop scientists like Richard Dawkins
or Jerry Coyne from publicly insisting that science has disproved religion
and the existence of God.

-Mike Gene

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Wallace" <wmdavid.wallace@gmail.com>
To: "ASA" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 6:45 PM
Subject: [asa] Theistic Evolutionists Close Ranks — Let the Bloodletting
Begin!

> http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/theistic-evolutionists-close-ranks-let-the-bloodletting-begin/
>
> Quote from Dembski:
>
> You know, I would be happy to sit down with theistic evolutionists and
> discuss our differences. I think they are wrong to baptize Darwin’s theory
> as God’s mode of creation. But I don’t think they are immoral or
> un-Christian for holding their views.
>
> It seems to me that in earlier parts of his posting he did question or
> come close to questioning the faith of ECs. Did not people like Ted, Rich
> and other try to have a dialogue a few years back on UCD and get booted
> and had their Christianity doubted, or am I becoming senile. Miller may
> well have gone too far in his attack on ID but Dembski's taring all of us
> the way he does seems very unfair.
> Could someone please explain how if ID is supposed to be religiously
> neutral, this post belongs on UcD.
> Dave W (ASA member)
>
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