Re: [asa] Edinburgh mtg--Alexander

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  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Randy Isaac
  To: asa@calvin.edu
  Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 11:32 AM
  Subject: Re: [asa] Edinburgh mtg--Alexander

  Survey Results:

  Thank you for all your responses. Here's the distribution:

  A: 27%

  B: 16%

  C: 49%

  D: 5%

  E: 3%

  I presume the distribution of ASA members overall would look a little different with a higher percentage for D, but that's just a guess based on the comfort level needed to participate in this list!

  Randy
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Randy Isaac
    To: asa@calvin.edu
    Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 11:13 PM
    Subject: [asa] Edinburgh mtg--Alexander

    REPLY REQUESTED!

    It was great to meet many of you in person at Edinburgh. It's always good to put a face with the email address. I trust you returned home safely and found the meeting to be productive.

    I found the meeting to be very broad and far-ranging with some excellent speakers. The audio is still being processed and should be posted as soon as that is completed so those of you who couldn't attend can sample some of the talks.

    Meanwhile, I just received permission from Denis Alexander, director/founder of the Faraday Institute, to share his presentation with this group. The topic is very close to some of the recent threads on this list. He intends to put much of the material into a chapter in a book and I agreed to provide him with all your posts on this thread. He would greatly value all your comments and feedback.

    His talk was titled "Darwinian Evolution; The Really Hard Questions" The audio will be available later but the full text and a pdf of his presentation are available at:
    http://www.asa3.org/~randyisaac/cis/cis2.html
    Please do not forward this link outside this list for now. I only obtained his permission for this group and this may only be a temporary link.

    This also gives me an opportunity to do an informal survey. On pages 21-25 of his presentation, he presents five models, A through E. I'd like to ask all of you (including all lurkers) to send me a note directly as a Reply to this note (do NOT copy the listserv or anyone else) containing ONLY a SINGLE letter: A, B, C, D, or E, reflecting your current inclination. No explanations or comments. I'll compile the statistics and share them with all of you. (don't stack the deck by voting more than once!)

    The topic is broad enough that our discussion can go in many different directions. Some possible major areas are:
    Does he clearly and accurately reflect the science of human origins?
    Does he clearly and accurately reflect the biblical/theological options?
    Does he reasonably defend his own preference?

    Randy

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Received on Sat Sep 1 14:34:06 2007