So confident that a dissenting voice might upset the whole apple cart?
Yup, the whole idea of peer review is a joke because every threat to evolution, every crticism is attacked as a “religious assault on science, theocracy, inquistion, dark ages, a threat to enlightenment, burinings at the stake”...etc.
and the only people incapable of recognizing this are the evo-cultists themselves.
tpanther, your notion that the only people incapable of recognizing the “bias” of peer review are “evo-cultists” is a very dangerous misconception being spread by adherents (both Real and Fake) to Young-Earth Creationism.
This misconception is being eagerly fanned on you-tube and web-2.0 media by “Poes”, leftist liberals who see an inability of mainline Christians to comprehend the difference between cosmology and rational science as a form of Intellectual(as opposed to faith-based) wedge issue.
The General “Poe” line of attack is to craft a postulate which, on the surface, sound reasonable to people conservative, mainline Christian cosmology, but which contain built-in, fundamental logical fallacies which are immediately obvious to individuals educated in a particular intellectual discipline. The Poe then broadcasts his postulate among the faithful, who, eager to read “Scientific evidence that supports their faith”, quickly latch on to it, praise it, and often claim it as their own material.
This is where the real subterfuge begins. The Poe then circulates the related postulate, and the eager faithful support of it, among those of the intellectual discipline for which is particular postulate was crafted to appeal, for it is these people who are his real intended audience.
The result is predictable- The Poes Educated audience (of undetermined faith and cosmological background) are lead to the conclusion that people of faith, and specifically, all people of Christian Religious Faith are “obviously” of diminished intellectual capacity due to their inability to see the “obvious” flaw. Usually, the Poe’s responsibility for creating the postulate, and the flaw itself, is conveniently “forgotten” in this follow-up discussion.
From a scientific and academic perspective, the comparisons drawn between Intelligent Design and Alchemy, Geocentricism, and even Astrology are absolutely apt, and the only people who do not understand this are those who have never been taught to comprehend the difference between Scientific Rationalism and Spiritual Cosmology.
Should young earth creationism be taught in school? ABSOLUTELY! Teach it in an introduction to philosophy/cosmology course. Teach it for what it is - a notion of how human beings fit in and relate to God and His Universe. That’s great, it’s honest and it’s fair.
The Hostility towards Young-Earth Creationism by Scientific journals has nothing to do with Truth or Cosmology, and everything to do with the fact that it is simply not a rational science. Until our children are taught to explicitly comprehend the difference, their, and your, confusion on the matter will be used by intellectually dishonest wolves to cast a mere lack of education as a fundamental fallacy in flaw in all you believe in and hold dear. The very terms “Evilution” and “evo-cultists” are meant as emotional bait, and all to often, the Traps are very real.
Even if you, personally, cannot comprehend them.