Re: Pat Buchanan: What are the Darwinists afraid of?

Robert J. Kolker wrote in talk.origins

> J. J. Lodder wrote:
>
>> Jason Spaceman <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Why Darwinists in particular?
>> The irrationality now current the USA
>> is bad enough to make any scientist afraid,
>
> Bingo! Right on the mark. The target is no evolution, per se, but
> science. Science has pretty well destroyed the power and reputation of
> religion in the non-Islamic world, so it is science that is being
> targeted.
>
> The idea is to restore non-empirical faith based views of the world. If
> facts and theory militate against God, then let us destroy facts and
> theory.

They pick on the TOE in particular because few people understand it,
it is hard to see evolution in action (takes far too long), any
benefit from understanding it is hard to perceive, and one can lump
any and all parts of science that you don't like right into it. And
there is the added benefit of being able to condemn it with all sorts
of irrelevant social practices.
The other sciences usually have direct, visible, and irrefutable
results. Physics, chemistry, astronomy, even geology, can be pretty
hard to dismiss. But, the various parts that they want to dismiss can
be tied into the TOE by the simple expedient of labeling everybody
evolutionists. As in "evolutionists would have you believe that the
earth is 4.6 billion years old". This immediately removes the age of
the earth away from geology, physics and astronomy, and puts it in
the TOE.
Once you remove all the bad parts of science, what you have left is
what is easily and readily visible. Planets moving around, things falling
to the earth, chemicals being mixed by chemists, and oil being discovered
by geologists. And everything else is stamp collecting. Which is exactly
what the fundies want.

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