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To: Stultis
PostModernism fits Creationism ideology exactly. Both claim a "superior" means of obtaining knowledge than scientific inquiry. Both are directs on the entire concept that scientific inquiry can yield knowledge about the world.
106 posted on 05/23/2003 10:49:31 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
PostModernism fits Creationism ideology exactly.

Spot On. We also find the creationists arguing, like wishy-washy libs, for intellectual affirmative action in the classroom and textbooks.

I used to go down to Austin occassionaly and listen to (fundamentalist activists) Mel and Norma Gabler at textbook hearings. It was ironic. As to every subject other than science, or even in science with respect to environmentalism, I would be cheering them on as they inveighed against special interest or socially driven relativism (e.g. history books that devoted as much space to Marilyn Monroe as to Abraham Lincoln).

With respect to every subject except evolution and the age of the earth, they argued with reasonable consistency (if, admittedly, not always with well-informed accuracy) for a hard-nosed curricula that should exclude the junk and stick to proven and recognized scholarship. When it did come to evolution their arguments, with adjustments for context, were the same as feckless liberals who wanted inclusion of, or more sensitivity towards, various minority viewpoints.

The contrast and gear-shifting was dramatic, not that they would ever notice.

109 posted on 05/23/2003 11:07:33 AM PDT by Stultis
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