On the ASA list, David Campbell wrote: "While trying to locate someone, I
found the following web site. It purports to list accredited scientists
who are doubtful about Darwinism. It also claims a willingness to make
corrections. Several of the standard misrepresentations are counted,
however. Does anyone have the background and the time to send
corrections?
http://www-acs.ucsd.edu/~idea/scidoubtevol.htm"
I looked at it. I am not comfortable with a site that gives equal billing
to -- say -- Alvin Plantinga and Thomas Barnes (to mention two
not-quite-at-random).
However, in the text, they write: "The purpose of this document is to
list individuals of high academic training who have publicly expressed
serious doubts about Darwinism, other naturalistic theories of life's
origin, or have expressed support for Intelligent Design theory, either
in scientific journals, books, web-documents, letters, or other public
statements. Our criteria for this page is that each individual must
either 1) have a PH, 2) be a professor at a university or 3) be
moderately published in scientific journals, or 4) is a member of a
mainstream scientific society."
That criteria is fairly stated, and so both Alvin and Thomas necessarily
qualify. The site does do a good job of sharpening the issues. 322 or so
names, even if YECs are counted, is more than a lonely few.
Still -- I wish there could be some additional partitioning. Maybe YEC
and ~YEC could be added.
John Burgeson (Burgy)
http://www.burgy.50megs.com
(science/theology, quantum mechanics, baseball, ethics,
humor, cars, God's intervention into natural causation, etc.)
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