Posted on 04/23/2009 7:27:24 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
For if we ever begin to suppress our search to understand nature, to quench our own intellectual excitement in a misguided effort to present a united front where it does not and should not exist, then we are truly lost.
–Stephen Jay Gould
[Y]ou’ve heard me complain about scientific organizations that sell evolution by insisting that it’s perfectly consistent with religion. Evolution, they say, threatens many peoples’ religious views — not just the literalism of Genesis, but also the morality that supposedly emanates from scripture. Professional societies like the National Academy of Sciences — the most elite organization of American scientists — have concluded that to make evolution palatable to Americans, you must show that it is not only consistent with religion, but also no threat to it. (And so much the better if, as theologians like John Haught assert, evolution actually deepens our faith.) Given that many members of such organizations are atheists, their stance of accommodationism appears to be a pragmatic one.
Here I argue that the accommodationist position of the National Academy of Sciences, and especially that of the National Center for Science Education, is a self-defeating tactic, compromising the very science they aspire to defend. By seeking union with religious people, and emphasizing that there is no genuine conflict between faith and science, they are making accommodationism not just a tactical position, but a philosophical one. By ignoring the significant dissent in the scientific community about whether religion and science can be reconciled, they imply a unanimity that does not exist. Finally, by consorting with scientists and philosophers who incorporate supernaturalism into their view of evolution, they erode the naturalism that underpins modern evolutionary theory.
Let’s begin with a typical accommodationist statement—this one from the National Academy of Sciences...
(Excerpt) Read more at whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com ...
Ping!
Your allies tell us what they think of you, and those in the Temple of Darwin who tolerate you.
I beg your pardon?
ggg is under the impression that is anyone who claims to be a scientist that every last scientist on Earth automatically agrees with his claims.
ggg isn’t included in the To: field as per his request.
Have you ever advocated compromise with conventional science?
These are the people who constantly insult creationists that you are so eager to defend.
Darwin’s fanciful creation myth is not science, it is a materialist religious assumption about the unobservable, unrepeatable past.
RULE 5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
I am endowed by my Creator...not by humans prone to error.
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I don’t believe that science & religion can go hand in hand with regard to man & his existence.
God will have his folly with those that test his patience.
You are generalizing my friend, not all scientists share those views.
Here is one example that will falsify your hypothesis.
“I am a religious person and I believe in God. I find the militant atheism of some evolutionary biologists ill-reasoned and childish, and most importantly unscientific — crucially, faith should not be subject to scientific justification.” ~ Henry Gee
http://stevereuland.blogspot.com/2006/04/wittlessly-quote-mining.html
Nuther load of bad weed?
You think that was ridicule? Evolutionists are the champions of ridicule and name calling.
You just can’t deal with evolution being stated as a “materialist religious assumption about the unobservable, unrepeatable past.”
Instead of debating that point, you accuse the person of ridicule.
Let me guess - you have a problem with N.C.I.S?
Isn't that what you get when you string a bunch of perjoratives together?
With real science, there is no need for compromise. With evolution, compromising with false religion is without benefit, thus pointless. Evolution needs only to be allowed to die from the wounds that science has inflicted.
You would not know what science was if hit you in the face.
Perhaps you need more coffee?
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