Don’t want to believe me, a practicing scientist, when I talk about the false science pitched by the Discovery Institute? Take it from the mouth of a religious scholar [1]. SMU’s Chair of Religious Studies, Dr. Mark Chancey, today rebutted the Victory Campus Ministry’s opinion piece [2], which itself rebutted the SMU science, philosophy, and history faculty response to the Discovery Institute event at SMU. Quoting from the end of Professor Chancey’s piece,
“Many religious groups-Christian and other-do not regard evolutionary theory as a threat. For many people of faith, science and religion go hand in hand. When scholars criticize [Intelligent Design (ID)], they are not attacking religion. They are only asking ID proponents to be transparent in their agenda, accurate about their representations of scholarship, and willing to play by the same rules of peer review and quality control that legitimate scholars and scientists around the world follow every day.”
Amen.
[2] http://www.smudailycampus.com/opinion/4-nails-in-professor-response-1.1659779
