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August 21, 2005
Something to Think About
From today’s New York Times article on “Intelligent Design”:
“All ideas go through three stages — first they’re ignored, then they’re attacked, then they’re accepted,” said Jay W. Richards, a philosopher and the institute’s vice president.Note that: evidently “all ideas” will eventually be accepted, regardless of their soundness. Intelligent design has a future after all.
I tried to figure out a charitable reconstruction of this philosopher’s glib blunder, but the best I could come up with is something like, “All good ideas are ignored, then attacked, before they’re accepted.” It doesn’t have a catchy ring to it — but then, it’s not out-and-out false, either.
Posted by AKMA at August 21, 2005 05:10 PM | Threadorati
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He just didn't get a chance to finish his thought: "...then they're accepted, by a population segment once predicted to become available at a rate of sixty per hour."
Posted by: Brooke at August 21, 2005 07:07 PM
I don't know if you know but that is the same Jay Richards who was a Ph.D. Candidate in Theology at PTS while you were there. He was also involved in the big bruhaha over the Charles Hodge Society publication that so upset the faculty authors of the book about Homosexuality.
Posted by: Scott Erwin at August 23, 2005 01:25 PM
Oh, dear! Of course I remember Jay, though I didn’t associate him with this article. It’s sad that he would get caught saying something so silly (if indeed this is what he said).
Yes, I was one of the targets of his barbs in the Hodge Society journal. After he and the others lit into me, Margaret and I invited them over for dinner (Bill Dembski was another of our guests that night).
Posted by: AKMA at August 23, 2005 02:13 PM
