RE: [asa] Phillip Johnson quote on ID

It is pseudoscience by definition:

"Pseudoscience is any body of knowledge, methodology, belief, or practice
that claims to be scientific but does not follow the scientific method."
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience]

"Coope"

From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of George Murphy
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 8:12 AM
To: Jon Tandy; 'ASA'
Subject: Re: [asa] Phillip Johnson quote on ID

So if there isn't a scientific theory & it's not religion, what is it?

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

----- Original Message -----

From: Jon Tandy <mailto:tandyland@earthlink.net>

To: 'ASA' <mailto:asa@calvin.edu>

Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:30 AM

Subject: [asa] Phillip Johnson quote on ID

This was mentioned on your blog, but I don't recall that it's been quoted on
this list. Phillip Johnson, as interviewed by Berkeley Science Review
(http://sciencereview.berkeley.edu/articles.php?issue=10
<http://sciencereview.berkeley.edu/articles.php?issue=10&article=evolution>
&article=evolution):

""I considered [Dover] a loser from the start. Where you have a board
writing a statement and telling the teachers to repeat it to the class, I
thought that was a very bad idea."

"I also don't think that there is really a theory of intelligent design at
the present time to propose as a comparable alternative to the Darwinian
theory, which is, whatever errors it might contain, a fully worked out
scheme. There is no intelligent design theory that's comparable. Working out
a positive theory is the job of the scientific people that we have
affiliated with the movement. Some of them are quite convinced that it's
doable, but that's for them to prove.No product is ready for competition in
the educational world."

Jon Tandy

From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of David Heddle
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 4:17 PM
To: George Murphy
Cc: David Opderbeck; ASA
Subject: Re: [asa] Theistic Evolutionists Clos e Ranks - Let the
Bloodletting Begin!

Here is a recap of Miller's talk when he came to CNU:

http://helives.blogspot.com/2008/03/kenneth-millers-cnu-talk.html

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