Re: [asa] How theistic evolution was explained to kids in 1964

It's not because it's a "sensitive topic" that I threatened to expel you.

It's your manner I'm objecting to, and your twisting of what I said, and
your assumption that I'm somehow buying into an "ideology", which is
absolute nonsense.

I am still waiting for a more reasonable explanation of your behaviour.
Till then, your question does not merit my going to the trouble of making an
answer, since I see no evidence that you're not going to twist it round
again.

Iain

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Gregory Arago <gregoryarago@yahoo.ca> wrote:

> Iain,
>
> Is evolution, in your opinion, a METHOD? Or is evolution a theory or a fact
> of natural history...?
>
> You called 'evolution' (in your words, not from a children's book): "God's
> method of creation." Should we take you at your word or will you step back
> from it?
>
> This is obviously a sensitive topic as you've threatened to 'expel' me from
> your constellation of voices over it!
>
> To me it is still astonishing that you view computer programs as
> 'evolving,' especially since you are a programmer and actively 'program'
> computers. Dave Wallace showed me the nuanced meaning of 'computer
> evolution,' though regress in that realm ALWAYS returns to human choice and
> action.
>
> My vocabulary is already re-configured so that I require 'evolution' only
> rarely when speaking about purely biological or natural things. Yet in the
> places you are using it, the meaning of the word 'evolution' is already
> over-used and often abused, and imo outdated, obsolete (while people echo it
> out of force of habit).
>
> Evolution: METHOD or something else?
>
> May the peace be with you,
>
> G.A.
>
>
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