Re: [asa] http://www.conservapedia.com/Evolution

Sorry, I can't. What I said of YECs is a paraphrase of what Medawar wrote (somewhere!) about Teilhard - less fairly, I think, than it can be said of YECs.

I get the impression that Medawar was a bit Pauli-like ("Not even wrong!") as a critic. At the Nobel Conference at Gustavus-Adolphus years ago, the one for the centenary of Darwin's death, Jaroslav Pelikan talked about the Cambridge Platonists, including Ralph Cudsworth. In his response Medawar said that he had read Cudsworth and found him "mind-numbingly dull." I suspect that whatever he may have said about YECs wasn't too gentle.

Shalom
George

---- Michael Roberts <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
> Can you give me your source for Medawar. My interest is that my father
> worked in the same lab at Oxford with him.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <gmurphy10@neo.rr.com>
> To: <asa@calvin.edu>; "Dehler, Bernie" <bernie.dehler@intel.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:35 PM
> Subject: RE: [asa] http://www.conservapedia.com/Evolution
>
>
> > Evidence for evolution has been posted all over the place for years. The
> > only reason not to call YECs liars is that before trying to deceive
> > others they have first deceived themselves. (With apologies to Peter
> > Medawar.)
> >
> > Shalom,
> > George
> >
> > ---- "Dehler wrote:
> >> Your link has this excerpt (emphasis mine):
> >> ""Defenders of Darwin's theory of evolution typically proclaim that
> >> evidence for their theory is simply overwhelming. If they really believe
> >> that, you would think they would jump at a chance to publicly explain
> >> some of that overwhelming evidence to the public. Apparently not.[211]"
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I've seen the opposite. I accept evolution, am a Christian, and can't
> >> find any local YEC's that want to debate or present something for
> >> discussion, in the Portland Oregon area. If you know of any, let me
> >> know. My meetings are here:
> >>
> >> http://www.meetup.com/sciligion/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Here I am "jumping" as suggested...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ...Bernie
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
> >> Behalf Of John Burgeson (ASA member)
> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:26 AM
> >> To: asa@calvin.edu
> >> Subject: [asa] http://www.conservapedia.com/Evolution
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> The subject line, http://www.conservapedia.com/Evolution, is a web
> >>
> >> site that shows almost 500,000 accesses. It is most interesting. Not
> >>
> >> too factual, of course, but interesting in seeing what drives our
> >>
> >> Christian brothers and sisters who are of the YEC persuasion.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> One thing that apparantly drives them is their negative judgement of
> >>
> >> those of us who see evolution and Christianity as being compatible.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Burgy
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> www.burgy.50megs.com
> >>
> >>
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