From: Robert Schneider (rjschn39@bellsouth.net)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 23:45:30 EDT
I had to stop reading Wilker's piece about four paragraphs down. I was
afraid I would drown in the gush.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Roberts" <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk>
To: "Ted Davis" <TDavis@messiah.edu>; <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: Benjamin Wiker on ID
> 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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