(Evolution) Woodward, Just think of it as science fiction.

AMDG, Janet
Janet | Homepage | 03.28.09 - 11:31 pm | #

There's an echo in here....
Woodward | Homepage | 03.29.09 - 2:24 pm | #

Great post as usual. Made me lol. It seems the advocates of science are outstripping us believers these days with their religious zealotry. If one doesn't require himself to examine the strengths and weaknesses of any given theory, then on what basis besides fideism can he affirm it as truth?
Keith Rickert Jr. | Homepage | 03.30.09 - 4:05 am | #

Fideism precisely, Keith. If you're in a classroom and you're being presented with propositions the intellectual content of which is not subject to critical assessment, then the class is not biology -- it's catechism.
Woodward | Homepage | 03.31.09 - 8:02 am | #

Hey...don't abuse the word "catechism". I'm reading Edward Feser's The Last Superstition. It is incredible...I think, the best book on the new atheists and one of the best books on secularism ever.
Keith Rickert Jr. | Homepage | 03.31.09 - 5:48 pm | #

Keith --

Heavens. I wasn't disparaging catechesis, just making a distinction between instruction in a revealed religion and instruction in the physical sciences. There oughta be some difference in the amount of critical thinking demanded (or at least allowed) in the one and the other....

I saw you were complimenting the Feser book at your blog. Since you, Roger Kimball, and Francis Beckwith all like it, I guess I should read it.
Woodward | Homepage | 03.31.09 - 7:15 pm | #