RE: [asa] "American Association of Christians in Science?"

I must have misunderstood. I thought Preston wanted to start a new
organization garnering membership from other existing Christian groups,
however, the "in science" part would eliminate many of us. I agree with you
Randy, ASA already has a public persona, a mission, organization, long
history, and other intangibles that could be lost in a name change.

Dick Fischer, GPA president
Genesis Proclaimed Association
"Finding Harmony in Bible, Science and History"
www.genesisproclaimed.org
 

-----Original Message-----
From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of Randy Isaac
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:03 AM
To: asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: [asa] "American Association of Christians in Science?"

Sorry to throw cold water on a discussion thread, but the issue of a name
change for the ASA has been debated about every 10 years. It's been
interesting reading about some of these discussions. It has always come back

to keeping the name as it is. As far as I can tell, the selection was made
to emphasize the scientific commitment and the professionalism of the
society. The subtitle, "Fellowship of Christians in science" is what I
encourage people to use if they feel the mission needs to be more explicit.
You could argue that there's an element of "stealth" in it but I have found
that AAAS and other scientific organizations seem more willing to publicly
work with us without an "in your face" type of name.

Net: I can understand the argument for changing the name but I see no
compelling motivation or advantage to justifying investing the expense and
time of making such a change.

Randy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dick Fischer" <dickfischer@verizon.net>
To: "'Preston Garrison'" <pngarrison@att.net>
Cc: "ASA" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:43 AM
Subject: RE: [asa] "American Association of Christians in Science?"

> Good idea.
>
> Start it up. Put it on the web. Make a 5013c. Can we at least take a
> public stance against YEC?
>
> Yours faithfully,
>
> Dick Fischer, GPA president
> Genesis Proclaimed Association
> "Finding Harmony in Bible, Science and History"
> www.genesisproclaimed.org
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
> Behalf Of Preston Garrison
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 10:58 PM
> To: ASA list
> Subject: [asa] "American Association of Christians in Science?"
>
> All,
>
> You may regard this message as a stone thrown into the pond to see
> what happens.
>
> I'm wondering why the ASA does not identify itself in its name as
> Christian or evangelical? Is it a stealth strategy or what? I throw
> the idea in the subject line out, not as something I mean to push,
> but as a question about why our name is not as straightforward as the
> UK org CiS (Christians in Science). There is the obvious analogy to
> the AAAS, of course.
>
> This also relates to earlier discussions about whether the ASA should
> try to attract people and perhaps other organizations into some sort
> of more comprehensive association.
>
> Preston
>
> "... a loose association of millionaires and billionaires" - Paul Simon
>
> (We could use a few of those as well. :))
>
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