May I just clarify the latest interesting contribution from Wayne Spencer.
Purely through a quirk of email software, unless you look closely at the
quotation marks, this message appears to attribute David Perks' words to me.
For the record,
Ian Russell said:
>
> "Militant creationist propaganda has had more influence than you might
> think. A high percentage of non-religious people, including well-educated
> people, have unwittingly absorbed a feeling that evolution by natural
> selection, for example, is "just a theory" on a par with a whole zoo of
> alternative theories. I also sense a very real uneasiness about human
> evolution among non-religious people: a suspicion that it is somehow a
> threat to morality and human dignity. We can't dismiss the issue lightly."
David Perks said:
>
> The reason for the openness of people to scepticism is the weakness of the
> case put for science in this case evoultionary theory. Cultural relativism
> dominates the current intellectual climate and unsurprisingly science has
> been attacked as being culturally specific and hence one of many truths.
> This coupled with a lack of direction in society politically has amplified
> the call for a moral dimension to science - the qualification of the
> scientific outlook.
Ian Russell * [log in to unmask]
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