An Invitation for Tea
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From: Scott Vigil @svis.com
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2013 8:53 AM
To: Casey Luskin @ Discovery.org
Subject: An Invitation for Tea
Hello
Casey,
I
submit that the way we answer this question, “So what’s the default” defines
us.
If
the default is “God”, one is not a scientist. One is a theist, perhaps an
apologist.
For a
true scientist, the default is,
I
don’t know.
Take
off your apologist cap for a moment and just allow yourself to take something
in from a great scientist. He’s ok if you want to believe
in God. He just doesn’t want theists interfering with people who would
otherwise help us make progress in science. So put your Mandela cap on for a
little while. Mandela had tea with De Klerk. He probably got this from Gandhi.
Have
tea with Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Look, I will serve you.
You
already have his wonderful interview from my 12/5 email. Here’s a four minute
segment on the God
of the Gaps that
came from that interview. Here’s another one on The Perimeter of Ignorance. It’s 31
minutes. He talks about ID. Remember, you’re having tea. He’s talking about
Ptolemy’s version of ID, Galileo’s charge for us to use our God given brains
and Newton’s need for God. Please, sit and listen.
Remember Mandela and Gandhi.
Best,
Scott
Hello Casey,
Please consider this as part of the tea party.
Here's the abstract of this very important documentary. It
has nothing to do with ID or evolution, but it is completely germane to our
discussion.
"Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse examines why science
appears to be under attack, and why public trust in key scientific theories has
been eroded - from the theory that man-made climate change is warming our
planet, to the safety of GM food, or that HIV causes AIDS.”
Casey Tuesday, January 14, 2014 4:13 PM:
Well, since I’m not part of the tea party, and I’m not an climate-change-skeptica, and
I LOVE GM food, and I believe HIV does cause aids, I suppose this isn’t a
problem for me. (Interestingly, the whole anti-GM food craze came from the
political left, not the political right…read “Science Left Behind” for a
fascinating take on this.)
Scott
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