ERVs and evolutionary predictions

[Tim]

@sfmatheson

We’ve had this tedious conversation before .

I would also draw attention to that thread’s parent thread.

My response there to George still appears apt:

@Tim

@gbrooks9

But I.D. thrives in a conversational context where they are combating a model of nature that has no God.

How does this distinguish Evolutionary Theory from the rest of Science? Isn’t Chemistry “a model of nature that has no God”? Isn’t Statistics? But I see no Christian chauvinists complaining that we’ve kicked God out of casinos.

Creationists aren’t complaining about Evolution because its treated differently from other sciences (for all Ken Ham’s huffing and puffing about Operational and Historical sciences), they’re complaining because they want it to be treated differently.

For all Nelson’s complaints about MN’s iniquities, and the DI’s calls for “unfettered” science, the only fields creationists seem to want to unfetter is Evolutionary Biology (for OECs, Evolutionary Biology + Geology for YECs).

I’d suggest that, in demanding that we treat Evolution differently, @gbrooks9 is making common ground with ID against Theistic Evolution.