[asa] Re: [asa] YEC--What can we offer them?

David Campbell worte:
>The original continental drift had the continents plowing through the
>seafloor, which doesn't work. Recognizing that the seafloor is made
>of moving plates, too was an important step.
>

There were obviously problems with it. I don't think it is fair
to insist that everyone should have embraced it. Good ideas are
also helped and often made better by criticism. Indeed, we should
welcome it because we can be sure that ideas that are solid will
stand the fire.

Nevertheless, it suggests
that we scientists would do well to learn to keep that humility
switch set to the "on" position when we open our mouths.

Sympathetically, I would also add that, for every right idea, there
are probably 1000 crackpots who try to promote some kind of nonsense.
So it is very easy to make the mistake of hitting the rock twice
(Nu 20:1-13). Yet just as Moses was punished severely for a
moment of very understandable indiscretion, so the 20/20 hindsight
of history urges us to engage those humility gears, lest we are
also punished though the spectacles of historical reflection.

by Grace we proceed,
Wayne (ASA member)

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Received on Fri Jul 6 18:07:34 2007