Re: An Open Letter to [Hammond]

From: TMG (TMG_at_Nowhere.org)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 02:53:28 +0000 (UTC)

George Hammond wrote:

> "Earle Jones" <earle.jones@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:earle.jones-BEE5D5.12021526092004@netnews.comcast.net...

>>Hammond: You will draw less fire if you select someone like devout
>>Christian Dr. Kenneth Miller, Harvard biologist -- now Professor of
>>Biology at Brown University. He is the author of "Finding Darwin's
>>God". He is also very approachable -- he will probably respond to
>>your SPOG -- I rather doubt that Dembski will.
>
>
> [Hammond]
> That is disheartening... but I think you're right... I'll be suprised
> if Dembski ever replies to me. Just a guess, but I think he's
> more interested in selling books than anything else... I could be
> wrong.... but....
> The problem with a guy like Miller is that he's only a biologist.
> He has no degrees "hard science" (Math or Physics) like Dembski does
> and unlike Dembski he has no knowlege of Psychometry or General Relativity.
> Biology is only a small part of the SPoG.... Psychometry and General
> Relativity are large chunks of it.
> If Dembski lets us down.... it may be a long wait for another candidate
> to surface. But, I'll have to wait a couple of weeks to see if I hear from
> Dembski... if not I guess my worst fears about him will be realized.

And so the loser's lament continues. Next Dembski will be labeled a
"line-professional" pedant who doesn't know god and is incapable of
understanding the spog.

What your towering arrogance and fragile psyche just can't accept is -
you're wrong. Flat out crazy wrong. You can't see what everyone else
does, and can't learn from that.

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