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To: allmendream

“Sorry but do you even know what “Post-modernism” means?

It is the idea that all viewpoints are equally valid.”

The idea the all viewpoints are equally valid is multiculturalism, and the source of that is cultural Marxism originating in the Franfurt School. Postmodernism includes a a wide variety of views in a number of fields, but the common thread in them all is anti-rational objective knowledge. It originated with the Positivists of vienna circle. Both multiculturalism and postmodernism can be traced back to Hume.

Postmodernists include:

Jacques Derrida
Deleuze
Foucault
Jean Baudrillard
Jürgen Habermas (who was also a cultural Marxist and a member of the Frankfurt school)
Richard Rorty

This is not the best reference, but an example of their anti-science views:

http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/436/pomo.htm

“... the subjectivity of the human subject precludes the possibility of science discovering objective truth. Second, since objectivity is an illusion, science according to the ideological argument, subverts oppressed groups, females, ethnics, third-world peoples (Spiro 1996).”

Here are lots of good sources on Postmodernism and Science:

http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/postmodernism.html#Postmodernism

I’m not criticising you for your ignorance about postmodernism. It’s a specialist’s field and your view is commonly held.

Now, please do me the same favor.

“Your argument, as with most Creationists/’cdesign proponentists’”

Neither I or the writer of the original article are creationists or believe in intelligent design. From my own point of view, ID is absurd, primarily because if the life on this planet was designed, the designer ought to be ashamed of himself ...or herself.

You obviously did not read the article. There are some questions presented there that are very clear, but may be a little difficult for you. The case is not either for or against evolution, it is that evolutionists will never honestly and straightforwardly address or answer these questions. Instead, they usually do what you have done, attempt to attack a person, which certainly convinces me, it’s because you and they do not have any answers.

Hank


24 posted on 04/29/2008 12:16:58 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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To: Hank Kerchief
I pointed out the nurses obfuscation about their supposed qualifications, and their obvious lack of knowledge of the subject due to numerous errors; this was not an attack on the person just their reasons for dissembling about their qualifications and their obvious lack of knowledge of the subject.

Postmodernism supposes that there is no objective reality and that all viewpoints are therefore equally valid.

Science supposes that there is an objective reality and that Scientific theories can help explain and predict this reality.

“May be a little difficult for you”? Oh and I suppose that isn't a personal attack. It is laughable one considering the lack of intellectual heft your posts display, but it certainly is one. It betrays the weakness of your position which is ludicrous on its face due to your poor understanding of both Science and Postmodernism.

34 posted on 04/29/2008 12:45:48 PM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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To: Hank Kerchief

I think Hank may be Reginald Firehammer, the author of the post. Reggie is the owner of the site that Ms. Hewitt insists on posting on rather than FR.

“Reginald Firehammer is the creator and producer of the Independent Individualist and The Autonomist”

I tried to register, but for some reason I haven’t received my activation email. I smell fraud.


81 posted on 04/29/2008 8:15:39 PM PDT by Soliton
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