Re: [asa] EU proposed regulation of creationism and ID

On Sep 22, 2007, at 1:14 AM, Michael Roberts wrote:

> Before we berate anyone else, we need to see just what damage has
> been done to the Christian cause by the rantings of the YEC and ID
> crowd. It is no wonder that anti-Christian hostility has increased.
>
> When you consider the bad science, misrepresentation and the rest
> of it, the Dawkins crowd do have a point. Yet we are supposed to
> treat of Christian brothers and sisters who engage in such
> dishonesty as if they were good loyal followers of Jesus.
>
> So long as we ignore their bad behaviour the problem will continue.
>
> further it is difficult to keep discussions on an even keel because
> many cant distinguish between YEC and ID rubbish and carefully
> thought out work by Christian scientists, thus Collins is seen to
> be as loopy as Morris and O'Leary
>
>

You see how YEC and ID has made it difficult to distinguish the two
groups in the document in question:

> 7. From [Darwin] on, there were two camps that faced one another:
> those who were convinced that Darwin had to be opposed in order to
> defend Christian theology and those who thought that the theory of
> natural selection would enable humankind to put an end once and for
> all to the theoretical foundations of “religious obscurantism”.
>

Despite the historical error above, the document does make an effort
not to fall into the warfare model trap:

> 13. All leading representatives of the main monotheistic
> religions have adopted a much more moderate attitude [towards
> evolution]. Pope Benedict XVI, for example, as his predecessor Pope
> John-Paul II, today praises the role of the sciences in the
> evolution of humanity and recognises that the theory of evolution
> is “more than a hypothesis”.
>

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Received on Sat Sep 22 09:33:35 2007