Joe Meert

Sure, I am happy to clarify. It might take some explanation. I was born and raised in the Christian faith (my parents were missionaries in Colombia). At one point in my life, I abandonded the faith and would be properly classified as an atheist. After thinking things through, I thought that agnostic would be a more comfortable philosophical viewpoint, but ultimately found it to be untenable with my personal views. In the past 6 months, I have gone back to my theological roots--so to speak-- and find that a Christian perspective on things is the most philosophically comfortable position. I choose not to discuss my 'conversion' here or on the web except to say that according to the rules of TWEB, I am most assuredly classified as an old earth theistic evolutionist. When I describe myself as such, I am speaking solely from a theological perspective. My science, is, was and always will be atheistic because science is an atheistic pursuit. For the lurkers, let me state that my definition of 'atheistic' science is simply that I cannot from a scientific perspective; test, verify or falsify the existence of a deity. Therefore, from a scientific perspective, I would be classified as an old earth non-theistic evolutionist. I guess I would find myself in complete agreement with Gould's notion of non-overlapping magisteria.

Cheers

Joe Meert

Ergaster

Hey, Joe--it's been a while, eh? Welcome (back) to the fold, so to speak!



Deb

Joe Meert

JM: Hey Deb, how are things going for you? Are you feeling ok these days?

Cheers

Joe Meert

pz

This thread has wandered far from any discussion of the issues of evolution, so it has been moved to Miscellaneous Discussions.

Sauron

This, of course, was never the issue.

Turkel lied about the reason for his pseudonym. His explanation did not check out. The claims about his prison career, etc. are simply not tenable.

Moreover, for someone who is allegedly so worried about ex-convicts hunting him down, his actions contradict him. He himself revealed his name to people in email on many occasions.

And, of course, anyone who does a whois on his server can find out all kinds of personal information about him - including his address and phone number. Turkel has already given up this information, in so many different ways.

So the idea that Theologyweb is protecting privacy is thus exposed as nonsense. They are protecting anonymity, not privacy. What's the difference? Privacy is keeping things confidential - it's what medical records, or credit reports, should receive. Anonymity is what obscene phone callers and scam artists rely upon. Turkel is the latter, not the former.

Not at all. It goes to the question of integrity and motive. Tweb is enabling this behavior, because you provide the camouflage and the forum for it.