Abstract
It's better to be disagreed with than to be ignored, so I am grateful to Allan Harvey for his letter (PSCF 53 [June 2001]: 139) in response to my note (PSCF 53 [March 2001]: 5-6). Like many readers of this journal, I am a Christian academic who desires to appropriately and effectively present the claims of Jesus Christ to my students and colleagues. It is in that context that I raise questions about two issues: (1) the relevance of provincial discussions of theistic evolution to the secular academy; and (2) the importance of communicating clearly in the secular academy when the issue of origins is discussed. Harvey's letter is mainly concerned with the second point.