Re: [asa] Defendscience vs. Collins

We can jaw around all we want about those from both sides who attack
Collins and those who put him in his leadership position; but how many
of us are communicating our praise to our elected representatives for
their wisdom in looking past the teapot tempests from the margins and
looking at his credentials and accomplishments? If those on the
margins are busy making noise of discontent, and we are quiet and
restrict our concerns just to preaching to our own choir in places like
this, then those "margins" seem to loom larger to elected leaders.
Human nature says we won't make the effort to mail anybody anything
until we're mad about something. I hope Obama is getting explicit
positive reinforcement from somewhere that he did the right thing and
that Collins is not an enemy of science. Maybe I should put my stones
back down now, given that I haven't yet done anything I discussed above.

--Merv

gmurphy10@neo.rr.com wrote:
> For these folks it's axiomatic that science & religion can't be compatible so there's really no possibility even to discuss the question. (For them there's no question!) Their arguments have exactly the same structure as YECs for whom a young earth & rejection of evolution are axiomatic. So it's not at all surprising that both groups attack Collins & anyone who has the audacity to examine their presuppositions.
>
> Shalom,
> George
>
> ---- George Cooper <georgecooper@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> I was disappointed to receive the following article from Defend Science,
>> which attacks Collins and obfuscates the delineation between science and
>> religion.
>>
>> "Francis Collins Appointed as Director of NIH: Science is Attacked Under
>> the Banner of "the compatibility of science and religion"
>>
>> .
>>
>> "Collins' "harmony" is not good for science.
>>
>> .
>>
>> [Collins'] reference to "atheistic materialism" serves to delegitimize core
>> principles of the scientific method and to legitimize the introduction of
>> god as a hypothesis in science."
>>
>> .
>>
>> All this has set Obama and his administration in opposition to consistently
>> upholding core principles of science. In the context we find ourselves in
>> the aftermath of Bush, Obama has embraced hard-core enemies of science, and
>> acted as if there is no problem.
>>
>> Footnote: .This aspect of "theistic evolution" is a muddle which is in open
>> and sharp contradiction to evolutionary theory."
>>
>> http://www.defendscience.org/ds_commentary16.html
>>
>>
>>
>> Once again, atheism via science! Am I wrong?
>>
>>
>>
>> "Coope"
>>
>>

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Received on Thu Sep 3 13:15:24 2009