Re: [asa] Christinaity and the environment

So can we try to get some good people to work with him to help make
the new series reach a wider audience with a positive rather than
negative message. Surely people like Ghillean Prance, John Haught
(sp.?) and other prominent Christian scientists ought to be able to
have a beneficial advisory role.

Doug Hayworth

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:55 PM, David Campbell <pleuronaia@gmail.com> wrote:
> The latest Nature has an interview with David Attenborough (narrator
> of many nature films). One of his latest projects is apparently a
> series promoting evolution and taking on antievolutionism.
> Regrettably, the reason he gives for the importance of evolution is
> Lynn White's thesis (not attributed to him) that the Genesis mandate
> to subdue and rule the earth entails abusive exploitation. Such
> claims do get made in certain Christian circles as well as
> anti-Christian ones, but the numerous Christian pro-environment and
> non-Christian anti-environment examples should raise serious problems
> for the claim.
>
>
> --
> Dr. David Campbell
> 425 Scientific Collections
> University of Alabama
> "I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"
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