Re: Student perceptions re evolution

From: Sarah Berel-Harrop (sec@hal-pc.org)
Date: Thu Aug 21 2003 - 15:55:11 EDT

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    On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:05:02 -0400
      "Robert Schneider" <rjschn39@bellsouth.net> wrote:
    >Jay's substitution of "so many" for "so often" does not
    >make such a sweeping
    >indictment any less palatable, and Howard's challenge for
    >empirical evidence
    >still stands.

    Phillip Johnson has kindly fingered two -

    Richard Dawkins
    Will Provine

    He is most thankful to them for "clarifying the issues".

    I don't know about Provine, but Dawkins is surely one of
    the people that Lewontin means when he talks about
    "vulgarizers of science". This is a very helpful
    and accurate description. Anyone who teaches or
    preaches evolution in the manner Jay suggests is indeed
    a vulgarizer of science. That is, he or she has
    misrepresented science to the public in service of
    their promotion of scientism. This cheapens -
    vulgarizes - the work that other scientists do.

    But I come back to Howard's question, how many of
    these folks actually and truly exist, I suspect
    that in actual practice and teaching far fewer
    than the ID'ers and others make out.



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