[allmendream]

It does everything to discredit Dumbski as a Scientist. It also discredits him as a theologists. When facts confront someone’s interpretation of the Bible it is their interpretation that is in error, not the facts.

“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”

Saint Thomas Aquinas

[SirLinksalot]

It does everything to discredit Dumbski as a Scientist.

I notice from your arrogant remark how you deliberatly mis-spelled his name, as if doing so does anything to discredit him.

Also, it does nothing of that sort. Baylor is a Christian university whose administrators still believe in the gospel. Dembski was speaking to them on their own terms ( i.e. their own belief ).

There is nothing that says because a scientist is a Christian ( as Newton and Kepler were ) who uses language others can relate to, his work is therefore discredited.

If this were so, then Newton's treatise on eschatology would disqualify him as scientist.

It also discredits him as a theologists.

The correct term is Theologian. I guess using the wrong term disqualifies you from pronouncing judgment on other people's competence. BTW, Demski, aside from having taught at Northwestern University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Dallas, has done postdoctoral work in mathematics at MIT, in physics at the University of Chicago, and in computer science at Princeton University. Dr. Dembski is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he earned a B.A. in psychology, an M.S. in statistics, and a Ph.D. in philosophy. He He also received a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Chicago.

Now get this, he also happens to have a Master of Divinity from Princeton Thological Seminary. I'd like to know what degree you have in this area that qualifies you to say he is a discredited "theologist" (sic).

When facts confront someone’s interpretation of the Bible it is their interpretation that is in error, not the facts.

Facts, such as what ?

“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”

Well thank you St. Thomas. Believing that mindless matter can itself create human beings and a habitable planet is probably one of those he had in mind. After all, he was the one who articulated the Cosmological argument.