[JWinNC]

Klinghoffer is wrong about the "spectrum" of conservatism, but it's an interesting read. This quote from Kristol is a spot-on keeper:

"So ''evolution'' is no simple established scientific orthodoxy, and to teach it as such is an exercise in dogmatism. It is reasonable to suppose that if evolution were taught more cautiously, as a conglomerate idea consisting of conflicting hypotheses rather than as an unchallengeable certainty, it would be far less controversial. As things now stand, the religious fundamentalists are not far off the mark when they assert that evolution, as generally taught, has an unwarranted anti-religious edge to it."

jw

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Right. Not just a stylistic issue.

The liberal dorks anxiously and nervously demanding that everyone study the swamp monsters and hominid charts are wrestling with sexual issues. When they can't stop talking about primitive ape-men and rural swamp monsters, and get hysterical about not being able to force others to do so, that's a flag. Big Hairy Monster fantasies usually pass when the dork finishes puberty for most normal people. But the 19th century neurasthenic Victorian nerds who felt guilty about fornicating got a little more hysterical about this. They needed to make it a rule, that everyone would have to follow, that human beings were just apes for some reason. Only the really neurotic obsessive-compulsive nerds start having spaz attacks, shouting and yelling hysterically when people won't pay attention to their big hairy ape monster theories and fantasy hominid charts.

The Velma types who become high school Biology teachers are a little more interesting in that they will at least take safari vacations or go live with chimps and apes in the wild for months at a time, reaching a more quiet resolution of the problem. So Scooby Doo Darwinism can at least be very entertaining.