Mr. Duncan is a theologian, not a scientist. Rather than spend his time on academic pursuits, Duncan spends his time (by his own admission: “twenty-four hours a day”) on“spreading the gospel.”
—Arthur Ide, PhD, MD, DA: October 6, 2005, responding to comments by Donnell Duncan on the article “Drawing a Line in the Academic Sand” on Inside Higher Ed.
I guess I pushed this man over the edge when I said the following in
a heated debate that day: “Intelligent design is definitely a sketchy
issue, but some of the foundational principles of evolution, though
widely accepted, are also highly debatable. A university is the one
place where we hope students can develop into independent thinkers.
If they cannot even discuss the validity of a contentious scientific
theory with the faculty in a bio-physical science class, then some of
that independence is lost. It is unfortunate that a public university
administration chooses to be one sided instead of allowing competing
theories fair exposure.”
The most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could
only proceed from the counsel and dominion on an intelligent
and powerful Being.
—Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727), Principia (1687)
Science and theology are not mutually exclusive. Sir Isaac Newton
is considered to be one of the most prominent physicists, mathematicians, astronomers, chemists, and theologians. Newton’s laws of
motion are the foundational principles for classical mechanics. He
also wrote the book “Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel
and the Apocalypse of St. John.” If I were to respond with the same
logic as those secular scientists who think Christians can’t also be
scientists, I would say, “These guys are agnostics and atheists; they
are not scientists.”
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