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To: Ichneumon

Spam.


111 posted on 04/27/2006 11:01:05 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Mamzelle; svcw
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No, direct evidence, which you can't even begin to deal with, either intellectually or emotionally, so you desperately attempt to dismiss it with a pathetic one-word response which demonstrates quite clearly (especially when taken with all of your *other* posts on these threads) that you have no interest in any of the science which you frequently attack, and have no ability to actually assess it on its own merits, you just operate on your deep bitterness and denial.

Whatever gets you through the day, Mamzelle.

svcw, you expressed surprise that one could conclude that there are science-illiterate religious conservatives. Ask Mamzelle to actually address the contents of post #107, and you'll quickly realize that there are. Now there's nothing wrong with not being conversant on any given topic, of course, UNLESS the person ignorant on [topic X] is arrogant enough to spend a great deal of time attacking [topic X] and denouncing it and attempting to "lecture" and "correct" people on it without actually having any clue what in the hell they're talking about (by actually *understanding* topic X and having a solid knowledge of it)...

There are countless religious conservatives, a large number of them right here on FreeRepublic, who viciously attack evolutionary biology and other fields of science, as well as the people who practice in those fields or who are knowledgeable of those fields and defend them from false attacks, despite not having any real clue about the topics they crusade against.

It gets really old after a while. And worse, this kind of "I don't understand science but I know it's wrong and evil and part of the atheistic conspiracy" folks are very vocal in the public discourse, to the point where a great many people who would otherwise be sympathetic to conservative politics run away screaming after having gotten the impression (which is not far from correct) that conservatism contains a large segment of folks who are wild-eyed anti-science Luddites. This is similar to how the more moderate liberal movements lose support because people are scared off by the more whackjob liberal nuts.

This is *not* a good thing for conservatism. I personally know dozens of people who might otherwise consider voting for conservatives or Republicans, but every time I try to point out how many of their personal views match those of the conservative movement, they recoil in horror and start listing the various antics of the kind of anti-intellectual extremists that have given conservatism a bad name by association.

There's nothing wrong with being religious -- in fact, the *majority* of American "evolutionists" are themselves Christians. But there is a very vocal, very strident, very intolerant, very anti-science segment of religious conservatives who are *not* doing the conservative cause any favors.

143 posted on 04/27/2006 11:25:47 AM PDT by Ichneumon (Ignorance is curable, but the afflicted has to want to be cured.)
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To: Mamzelle
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Well, hell, if you can't refute or counter it, why not just airily wave it away?

The truth of the matter is you cannot even understand what was posted there, but that doesn't matter because it doesn't matter how ignorant you truly are, you're going to heave where you can laugh at all them there pointy-headed knowitall scientists what thinks they is better than you because they're soooo smart while they roast in the pits of Hell.

190 posted on 04/27/2006 12:46:52 PM PDT by Junior (Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
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