The State Ep3: Educational Freedom From Evolutionary Religion, Will Bush Nuke Iran in 2 Months?
In today’s show I discussed the a series of state legislation providing more freedom to teachers with regard to teaching evolutionary theory. Sixteen percent of science teachers are creationists - should they be allowed to talk about it in class?
Also, will Bush nuke Iran in (about) two months? I discuss some rumors that (supposedly) originate from sources who may know. It sure looks like the media is preparing the American people for a strike on Iran, that’s for sure.
In other news, a women came to life after being all but left for dead. (We discussed this on the flack show)
I also talk about a poll that shows that Christians condemn the wearing of fur more than divorce…eh?
Popularity: 31%
Adam,
I think the whole debate over evolution in the public schools is tarnished by the assumption of Scientific Realism. However, from what I have read there are a large number of philosophers of Science who are anti-realists, which relativizes scientific theories making them pragmatically true (i.e. true because they are useful); because the theory is useful does not mean that the theory (whatever the scientific field) is certain enough to be believed as true. John Byl is one Christain scientists who has wrote a few articles and one book that touches on the subject, but as of yet I think the position has been ignored. The reason, I think, antirealism/instrumentalism has been ignored is because certain forms of foundationalism, namely enlightenment foundationalism, has infected the church. Christians or any other theists who dispute science on the basis of enlightenment realism’s assumptions about the world will fail. I think Bahnsen, Kuhn, and others have brought this out very well, but as of yet they have been largely silenced because of what anti-realism would mean for the scientific priesthood.
Blake Reas
Hey Blake! Absolutely agree with you, as usual. Scientists are continuously correcting each other in an attempt to provide an ideal theory for everything - a theory that will describe everything [as it is]. Yet, the process itself is one of constant skepticism and revision. When will they get to the point when they realize that the created order is quite beyond their tiny brains. To date scientists have done nothing but prove their inability to create an ideal theory, in any field, without begging the question the whole way through by assuming much of what they are trying to prove in the first place. The problem of the one and the many, for example, is something that they cannot begin to deal with, yet it is at the heart of both physics and meta-physics. It’s at this point that they rest on their enlightenment foundationalism. It’s at that point where they become speechless. It’s at that point they continue to borrow from our world-view, they begin to rest on the triune God, and get themselves into a world of hurt.
Well, I’ve gotta run. Thanks for stopping by.
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