From: Michael Roberts (michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 17:33:12 EDT
I looked up the site and it began;
"It may well be the most important intellectual movement to occur in the
last 200 years, if not the last half-millennium. Its roots are in the
sciences, but when it reaches full flower, it may branch into nearly every
discipline, from theology, philosophy, and the social sciences to history
and literature, and redefine almost every aspect of culture, from morality
and law to the arts.
It's the Intelligent Design (ID) movement, and it's reshaping the face of
science."
After nearly choking with laughter I thought I must share it with others on
this listserve. The only thing I can compare it with are the wonderful TV
appearances of the Iraqi Minister of Information whose statements to the
media are more amusing than incorrect. I will be sorry when he goes off air
in a day or two!!
It is an amazing mish-mash of senes and nonsense and were it not going to be
so widely read it could be safely ignored.
Can someone expalin to me how people keep churning out this sort of stuff
and clearly dont do their homework - here in the history if ideas and
science.
Must get back to the Iraq Minister of Information. H ewill be off air
tomorrow.
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Davis" <TDavis@messiah.edu>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 7:01 PM
Subject: Benjamin Wiker on ID
> Benjamin Wiker is a Roman Catholic writer from Ohio, with a doctorate in
> theological ethics from Vanderbilt. He's also a fellow of the Discovery
> Institute and author of a recent book from IVP, Moral Darwinism. (I've
> gotten into an argument with him about how he badly misread Newton and the
> early modern atomists in that book, incidentally, but that's not the
subject
> I'm suggesting here.)
>
> I think the following article (which apparently will have at least one
> sequel) may be worth discussing:
>
> http://www.crisismagazine.com/april2003/feature1.htm
>
> Because Ben's book is from IVP, it will likely be widely read by
> evangelicals. There he strongly promotes a "natural law" view of ethics,
> while attacking atomism and other forms of modern science as inherently
> atheistic. This is likely to become a heated converation among Christian
> intellectuals, so I suggest that those unfamiliar with this work remedy
that
> state of affairs.
>
> ted davis
>
>
>
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