RE: [asa] Number of biologists who are TE

After TE would come agnostics and atheists ahead of ID and YEC I would think
or are you talking about Christian colleges only?.

Dick Fischer, Genesis Proclaimed Association
Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
www.genesisproclaimed.org

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Behalf Of James Mahaffy
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 11:54 AM
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Subject: [asa] Number of biologists who are TE

Folks,

I getting the general impression especially from ASA meetings (which
may not be a representative sample) that it is probably fair enough to
say that most college biology teachers are TE. Is that right? I suspect
next might be ID and least YEC. Have there been good studies of this?
I did a quick web search and a study by covenant college
http://biology.covenant.edu/works/lothers%201.doc would seem to
indicate that maybe my assumption is not right at least with Coalition
colleges.

On the other hand Jerry Bergman
http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v13/i2/teaching.asp cites a lot
of studies that would tend to back my statement. I have the impression
that Jerry does do good research and a quick glance would indicate that
he is fairly quoting the surveys.

And yes - I am asking because I am dealing with this in a paleo class
this afternoon. And I am not TE nor YEC nor ID. I am an agnostic who
likes and respects the scholarship of some of my TE and ID brethren and
appreciates the strong commitment of some of the YEC folks (even if I
can not buy the young earth explanations or lack of them.
Blind copy to a colleague who teaches a course in Perspectives (in
Origins) at Dordt. [that way his e-mail unlike mine is not out there
for anyone to grab}

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