Re: [asa] C.S. Lewis on ID

So the PSCF article by Poe and MyTyk (
http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/2007/PSCF9-07dyn.html) is off base, and DeVries
did not in fact use the term for the first time in the peer reviewed
literature in 1986?
Can you point to literature discussing the term prior to 1986. And to
non-Christian sources?

Poe: Karl Giberson and Donald Yerxa have
argued that the term is the focus of a quarrel
within the Christian community, but that
"the quarrel over methodological naturalism
and theistic science does not engage the
average scientist in a lab coat ..."3

And so on. This is all completely off base? It should be easy to show the
quarrel going on outside the Christian community, if in fact it actually
did. But in that case one wonders why the various referenced authors in the
article bother to claim what they did. Seems to me PSCF deserves a
rebuttal article. Until I see one I see no reason not to remain skeptical of
your claim, George.

This issue seems to me to be important not only to the ASA but to the entire
world. Just as the Gregorian reform gave us equal rights (circa 1075) I
believe Christianity gave us methodological naturalism.

Best Regards,
David Clounch

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 7:06 AM, George Murphy <GMURPHY10@neo.rr.com> wrote:

> You do indeed disagree terribly here. MN has been part of the scientific
> community's tacit understanding of how science works for the past ~350 years
> and is held by scientists of different religious faiths as well as atheists
> and agnostics. The reason that it is maintained consistently is that it has
> been found to lead to fruitful scientific work. MN is quite consistent with
> good Christian theologies but is not dependent upon any of them.
>
> Shalom
> George
> http://home.neo.rr.com/scitheologyglm
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* David Clounch <david.clounch@gmail.com>
> *To:* john_walley@yahoo.com
> *Cc:* Marcio Pie <pie@ufpr.br> ; ASA <asa@calvin.edu>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:53 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [asa] C.S. Lewis on ID
>
> John,
>
> I terribly disagree.
> MN is a Christian theological solution to a theological problem and should
> not be taught in schools.
> ................................
>
>

To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@calvin.edu with
"unsubscribe asa" (no quotes) as the body of the message.
Received on Thu Nov 27 22:57:14 2008