But, if that just don't beat all! The jig is up fellas!! The leftists have got us all figured out.
-- (By contrast, today's IDers have gone further and adopted the epistemology of the left--the idea that ostensibly scientific truths may be relative.--
We, the clever folks who have bought into the idea that truth is relative and whoever has the most power gets to create the stuff known as 'truth'. Ahem, just when did we do this? I didn't get the memo...
(gee, we must keep well-thumbed copies of Kuhn by our commodes even!!!),
and we the clever folks who have decided that since the revealed word of our Lord is insufficient, why, we'll clevely adopt leftist postmodern tactics to win the fight against the godless, communistic, atheistic, amoralistic, father-hating, scoundrels of the left.
I had absolutely NO IDEA we were that smart, that they are so worried they opened Pandora's Postmodern box, and now, much like Islamo fundies, we're going to use this 'master weapon' against them. The tone of this article is just comical.
But, then again, maybe we are that unbelievably ...; after all, W is, still, the President. (*sounds of quiet chuckling and the whispered word ...'Rove'....*)....
I know you like reading and posting stuff like this from this high brow mag read by low brow knuckleheads on the left.
Enjoy!
George Orwell picked up on this phenomenon long before 1993.
This entire debate suffers from myopia.
Trust me, we're not worried about that
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
I like Robert Heinlein myself.
Aha! Great article. I've been thinking that a lot myself, that postmodernism and creationism/stealth creationism are secret friends.
LOLOLOLOL! Ah, this truly makes my day.
The Discovery Institute is based in...Seattle
The Thomas Moore Center is based in...Ann Arbor
And Philip Johnson operates out of...Berkeley. BERKELEY!
And within the scientific community, the most famous opponets of Neo-Darwinian theory are Richard Lewontin and Steve Rose...avowed Marxists who let ideology cloud their views the same way the IDers let theology cloud theirs. Yes, creationuts and the left are not-so-strange bedfellows. In fact, they were made for each other.
This is the real danger in ID. That it destroys the integrity of science itself. As the Kansas school board is attempting to do right now.
The scientific community has a bit of blame itself in this. It has allowed the political left to use the ambiguous evidence for global warming as a political weapon, without chastising scientists and institutions (like NASA) that have taken advantage of the political money bags. Science needs to adopt a method of separating the sources of the money from the specific research it funds. A "double blind" method if you will.
The scientific community needs to shake itself away from politics like ID and the Green political issues alike if it is to retain the respect of the people.
Heck, I'm really more of an anthroposophist than traditional christian, and I don't buy into the current theory of evolution.
Alternate title: Science Fiction (Common-sense Americans worry Whack-job IDers are using Leftist tactics to win Intelligent Design fight in their misguided and ignorant attempts to overturn a cornerstone of modern Western Civilization, 'Science'.)
Interesting...someone has figured out that the IDists and the postmodern leftists are using the same tactics to gain "respect" and acceptance of their viewpoints. Thank God that science is not democratic, or else we'd still be communicating by telegrams or the pony express!
Both sides insult the intelligence of educated, objective people.
Both sides label their opponents as bigots opposing free thinking. Just because someone's ego is bruised by science -doesn't mean they should have a place at the table. Respect is not an entitlement.
I always giggle when people try to associate moral relativism with Einstein's Relativity, it's more evidence of the generally ignorant state of our society. The post-modernists are just as misguided as the IDists, trying to force their political agenda on science, taking advantage of a dumbed-down public.