Re: [asa] The term Darwinism

Dennis,

Your point is very well taken. The ASA did issue that publication
officially, many years ago, and at that time it did reflect the views of a
committee appointed by the ASA.

As you say, the approach was fairly conservative on human evolution,
reflecting the views of some on that committee. It was mainly (IMO) a
careful and reasonable statement about science and its limits, and did not
in any way warrant the drive-by shooting directed at it by William
"Vendetta" Bennetta, as described in Ronald Numbers' book, "The
Creationists," pp. 321-22. To their credit, the NCSE did not join in this
trashing, which Numbers has called a "witch-hunt."

Whether a similar project could be done today, I am unable to say.
Certainly ASA still has quite a few members who would stop short of fully
embracing human evolution; we also have quite a few who believe that the
evidence for human evolution is very, very strong.

Ted

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Received on Mon Jul 6 15:09:04 2009