Re: paleonet: Beat up event

["Dr. David Campbell" <AMBLEMA@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >Philip Johnson was largely inspired to attack 
> >evolution because of reading Dawkins.
> >
> Or was it that he read Dawkins so he could attack evolution? I have 
> trouble believing he picked up "The Selfish Gene" or "The Blind 
> Watchmaker" with an open mind and without a priori assumptions.

Certainly some a priori assumptions were at work, e.g. an apparent 
predisposition for conspiracy theories, otherwise Johnson might have 
accepted the sound science in Dawkins and rejected the 
philosophical/religious errors.  Both of them claim evolution implies 
atheism when in fact evolution only tells us about how organisms work.  

-- 
Dr. David Campbell
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