Re: muzzles (was Re: [asa] Re: The Century Long Scientific Consensus on Global Warming)

From: William Hamilton <willeugenehamilton@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Jun 27 2008 - 15:58:56 EDT

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:24 PM, George Murphy <GMURPHY10@neo.rr.com> wrote:

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> An important distinction needs to be made. I would not want YEC advocates
> to be muzzled by some external authority, simply on 1st Amendment grounds.
> But at this point they contribute nothing useful to scientific or
> theological discourse & in fact are positively harmful. I would like it if
> they'd muzzle themselves.

Interestingly enough, the YEC's I am friends with (how can a Christian avoid
being friends with some YEC's?) feel that YEC's are muzzled in the schools,
the universities, publications and conferences. I agree that decent
standards of scientific discourse cannot be applied on a "free speech"
basis, but it certainly would be nice if we could educate the folks in the
pews on how science works.

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