Reaching out through Adam

[Jonathan_Burke (Jon)]

@Swamidass

But I am saying something different. I’m saying we should read other’s points of view as sympathetically as possible, and do what we honestly can to accommodate their values. There is just no reason for instigating conflict where it does not exist. There is plenty of places of real difficulty, so we need not invent difficulty where it does not exist.

I don’t know how many times I need to say I agree with this. But this honesty requires telling them that they can’t have the Adam they want.

@Swamidass

That is all I mean when I said:

But we can’t make the YEC time scale work with the evidence in a way which gets them the Adam they want, and we need to be direct about that.

@Swamidass

And, in fact, that is what I think a genealogical Adam does on several key points (but not all). So why not present science in a manner that is most welcoming to their point of view?

How many times do I need to say that we should present science in a manner which is most welcoming to their view? The issue I have is when that shifts to prioritizing “most welcoming to their view”, over being honest with the facts.