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

This applies to TE and YEC as well as ID and TE. I have never seen so much
unchristian behavior from Christians as when an argument over origins
develops.

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 6:33 PM, David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com>
wrote:

> What I don't understand is, why respond this way? Why not let a soft
> answer turn away wrath? The LAST thing the Church needs is an additional
> ugly war between two "camps" that really have more in common than not at the
> end of the day.
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Dave Wallace <wmdavid.wallace@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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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> Seton Hall University Law School
> Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology

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