Re: WingNutDaily columnist: The new Galileo

On Nov 5, 5:16 pm, Jason Spaceman <notrea...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
From the article:
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Posted: November 5, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

A few months ago, I wrote a column entitled "The case against science,"
which sparked many angry responses from scientists and science fetishists
who were offended at the idea that science could possibly be held
responsible for anything negative. Interestingly enough, none of these
defenders of science bothered to present any empirical evidence, instead
they resorted to the very logic and faith-based thinking which some
optimistic individuals believe science will one day replace.

But there can no longer be any doubt that scientism has become a dogmatic
article of faith, and ironically, one that is even more narrow-minded and
authoritarian than the medieval Catholic church. For centuries, the primary
basis for the secularist belief that science and religion are inherently
opposed has been Pope Urban VIII's "persecution" of Galileo for the crime
of arguing that the Earth revolved around the sun; as Dinesh D'Souza noted
in last week's interview, this myth has persisted primarily because it
serves the interests of the anti-religious narrative that remains popular
despite its fictional nature.

Ironically, Pope Urban VIII was correct in the end, as there is not an
astronomer or physicist in the world today who would disagree with the
material basis for the church's condemnation of Galileo's heretical
notion: "The proposition that the sun is in the center of the world and
immovable from its place is absurd. "

The infamous pope was far more open-minded than the scientists currently
attacking James Watson for his belief in human inequality. Not only did he
grant Galileo the right to write a book on heliocentrism, but actually
asked the father of modern physics to provide arguments for and against the
matter, demonstrating a devotion to reason that was wholly lacking in the
rush to lynch the father of the double-helix's sin against modern secular
orthodoxy.

It is absurd to imagine that there is absolutely no link between race and
intelligence. DNA is already being used to predict race with a 99 percent
level of accuracy by forensic crime labs, and there is not a single shred
of evidence, empirical, historical, anecdotal or documentary, that suggests
intelligence is the sole human attribute which is distributed equally
throughout humanity. While the relationship between race and intelligence
has not yet been fully understood, there is far more reliable evidence for
the existence of such a relationship than there is for many widely-accepted
scientific theories, including the theory of evolution, string theory,
multiple universes and so forth.
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Read it athttp://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58512

J. Spaceman

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LYNCH??? Can we keep this in the archives for the next time some
creationist accuses evolution of being racist?


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