RE: [asa] winning the war

I agree about the culture war... living in TX boy howdy... the understanding
of evolution is just way out there and it's very very right-wing around
here, even in Houston which surprisingly enough went blue in the election.
And I taught college bio for years and some of that goes into my book. Some
of the things students said when I asked them what they thought evo meant
was very revealing. It pretty much reflected Stephen Colbert's quote, which
cracks me up:

“Evolution is that like, millions and billions of years of mutations and
recombinations and cosmic rays knock something out of one DNA so when the
mitosis or myosis or whatever –osis come together something else happens and
the fur falls off and suddenly King Kong is a man?”

However I have also found a lot of very open minds when people sit down and
talk to me about it. That has perhaps been the most (pleasantly) surprising
thing to me. It's clear that they learn what evolution is not from biology
in h.s. like they should but from their parents and pastors and peers...

Wendee

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-----Original Message-----
From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of John Burgeson (ASA member)
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 3:59 PM
To: Bill Powers
Cc: ASA
Subject: Re: [asa] winning the war

>>It is ridiculous to think that the religious right is winning any culture
war. >>

I take it that you do not live down here in the Bible Belt.

I think the author has a valid point.

Burgy

On 2/11/09, Bill Powers <wjp@swcp.com> wrote:
> It is ridiculous to think that the religious right is winning any
> culture war. We live in a "scientific" culture, and have since sometime
> after WWII (I would guess). If there is a war going on it is not with
> the RR, but with postmodernism, which opposes the "scientific" culture.
>
> bill powers
>
> On
> Wed, 11 Feb 2009, John Burgeson (ASA member) wrote:
>
>> At the risk of again "bugging" some on this list, see this link:
>>
>> http://www.jesusmachine.com/
>>
>> which talks about how the RR is "winning the culture war."
>>
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>> Burgy
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