From: George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 07:29:37 EST
RFaussette@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 4/2/03 7:07:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, gmurphy@raex.com
> writes:
>
> > Tomorrow evening I'm going to be talking to a Christian students group at
> > the U of Toledo & in the next month I'll be speaking to 4 different lay &
> > clergy
> > groups about related matters. But I have no illusion that these events
> > will reach the number of people that a well-funded & publicized
> > presentation by Ken Ham, or a nationwide TV interview with "Dr." Carl
> > Baugh, does.
> >
>
> You seem to be doing wonderfully engaging that many groups in such a short
> time.
> The media does not want evolutionists to look at religion. The media leftists
> wants organized religion ended. That is why the media will air a creationist
> or any crackpot before airing a credible intelligent religious Christian man.
> It is not the the demand for your events is low but the media funnel prevents
> your message from getting to the people who could apprehend it and respond to
> it, there are countless rationally bound religionists who've lost the faith
> and need to know that religion is not irrational.
>
> "Once the reasoning associated with scientific thought loses its status as
> the only adaptive way to think, othe forms of thought associated with
> religion cease to be objects of scorn and incomprehension and can be studied
> as adaptations in their own right." David Sloan Wilson - Darwin's Cathedral
>
> Great work!
>
> rich
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> In a message dated 4/2/03 7:07:49 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> gmurphy@raex.com writes:
>
> Tomorrow evening I'm going to be talking to a Christian
> students group at the U of Toledo & in the next month I'll
> be speaking to 4 different lay & clergy
> groups about related matters. But I have no illusion that
> these events will reach the number of people that a
> well-funded & publicized presentation by Ken Ham, or a
> nationwide TV interview with "Dr." Carl Baugh, does.
>
>
> You seem to be doing wonderfully engaging that many groups in such a
> short time.
> The media does not want evolutionists to look at religion. The media
> leftists wants organized religion ended. That is why the media will
> air a creationist or any crackpot before airing a credible intelligent
> religious Christian man. It is not the the demand for your events is
> low but the media funnel prevents your message from getting to the
> people who could apprehend it and respond to it, there are countless
> rationally bound religionists who've lost the faith and need to know
> that religion is not irrational.
I guess it depends on what media we're talking about. Anti-evolutionists
sometimes get TV time on TBN & I'm sure other religious stations & networks. PBN has
had programs on religious issues connected with evolution that have some degree of
balance - e.g., the one a couple of years ago with, inter alia, Keith Miller. The
commercial networks don't seem to do a lot with the issue.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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