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Wow.

[Liberal Classic]

In recent weeks, many of the advocates of intelligent design that I have run into seem to hold somewhat, uh, unorthodox views. We have the abiogenic oil folks, the UFO buffs, newage-healing advocates, the anti-Papists, Darwin caused the Holocaust crowd, etc.

It is my position modern conservatism should be joined at the hip with modern science. I reject these fringe viewpoints, as being unscientific or too conspiratorial.

In the words of Barry Goldwater:

I cherish a day when our children once again will restore as heroes the sort of men and women who - unafraid and undaunted - pursue the truth, strive to cure disease, subdue and make fruitful our natural environment and produce the inventive engines of production, science, and technology.