Re: The Reasonable Minority

On Dec 10, 11:28 pm, "R. Baldwin" <res0k...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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"Evopeach" <keaton1...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Dec 10, 5:48 pm, John Harshman <jharshman.diespam...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Evopeach wrote:
This week I read two books which I found both enlightening and well
reasoned. The first was "The Language of God" by Francis Collins and
"The Design Revolution" by William Demski.

While Collins accepts evolution and an old earth he is also an
evangelical christian and a consumate scientist educated in physics,
chemistry, biology, and medicine. He has little respect for people
like Dawkins.

Really? Does he actually say that? I can see how he might not like
Dawkins' theology, but how could he not respect Dawkins' scientific work?

What scientific work? Dawkins is a pop science writer , parttime
instructor, and has little published current research.

Dawkins is a professor at Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal Society, has
published research in Nature, Science, Animal Behaviour, Behaviour,
Theoretical Biology, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Behavioral
and Brain Science, and other journals. He has a long list of publications.http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/Dawkins/Wo...







Demski likewise has significant credentials in math, philosophy,
information theory and yes theology.

So? And what are his significant credentials in information theory,
exactly?

He returned to school at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC),
where he studied psychology (in which he received a B.A. in 1981) and
statistics (receiving an M.S. in 1983). He was awarded an S.M. in
mathematics in 1985, and a Ph.D., also in mathematics, in 1988, both
from the University of Chicago, after which he held a postdoctoral
fellowship in mathematics from the National Science Foundation from
1988 until 1991, and another in the history and philosophy of science
at Northwestern University from 1992-1993. He was awarded an M.A. in
philosophy in 1993, and a Ph.D. in the same subject in 1996, both from
UIC, and an M.Div from Princeton Theological Seminary, also in 1996

Heh. No credentials in Information Theory, in other words.

In other words you can't read english....apparently. Meyer, S. C.
DNA and the origin of life: Information, specification and
explanation, in Darwinism, Design, & Public Education (Michigan State
University Press, 2003), Pp. 223-285.

And I know ...you once stayed in a Holiday Inn.

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