ITN: Dembski's "fatal concessions."

In a bewildering article that blasts various self-described Christian
bloggers and pundits for engaging with non-Christian institutions and
therefore giving up valuable ground, the author writes:

I think Dembski and Marsden have made fatal concessions to the
deeper institutional and ideological structures they purportedly
wish to change. They are figureheads for two strategically similar
negotiations between Evangelicals and established elites in the
institutions and regimes of expertise, mainly the academic
world. ID is a very hard-line, anti-positivist,
anti-materialist-reductionist movement with specific agendas, but
it actually makes major concessions to positivism and materialist
reductionism as the necessary rules of the game to which one must
adhere to get any hearing at all...

...

These "wedge strategies" have been concocted in order to make
superficial gains-- to acquire some mainstream intellectual
careers for certain Christians of approximately one's own kind.

Such honesty is refreshing, if somehow so sadly, terribly misguided.

http://japery.newpantagruel.com/2006/08/29/if_youre_intent_on_joining_the_chattering_classes_at_least_try_to_chatter_better.php

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