Re: [asa] Can God Love Darwin, Too?

>>> PvM <pvm.pandas@gmail.com> 09/11/07 11:35 AM >>>asks the following
question, I presume not simply a rhetorical one:

What about Baylor with Marks and Dembksi? Does Baylor have the right
to protect its good name? Even with Gonzalez, does his 'academic
freedom' somehow prevent others from expressing their worries as to
how their institutional name is being used for poor science?

Note that Gonzalez was not even mentioned in the petition although it
was Gonzalez's work that was causing ISU to be seen as an ID school.

Ted responds:
No one's academic freedom prevents anyone else from disagreeing, even in the
strongest possible terms, with their conclusions. To offer just one nice
example, John Brooke, Alister McGrath, and Peter Hodgson all disagree
vehemently with the atheistic interpretations of science advanced by their
Oxford colleagues Peter Atkins and Richard Dawkins. Despite the fact that
Dawkins has written simply incompetent, not to mention insulting, things
about science and religion, none of his colleagues has organized a petition
drive distancing their university from his work--whether or not he is
explicitly named in the petition (which is frankly, Pim, a red herring).

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Received on Tue Sep 11 14:44:01 2007