[Matchett-PI]

allmendream wrote: "The less educated someone is the more likely they are to be a creationist."

TXnMA replied: "This scientist's refinement of that statement: 'The less educated someone is the more likely they are to be a 'Young Earth Creationist'"

Or as Gagdad Bob would put it: "Literal Creationists":

"....Antibiotics are effective even for literal creationists. ..." [snip]

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"...There are radical secularists just as there are religious fundamentalists, and I certainly belong to neither group. People in my camp (which it should go without saying does not include literal creationists)...."

[xzins]

That’s just the kind of post to make me describe myself as a literal creationist. The problem, of course, is that I define “literal” as “literate” instead of as “mindless.”

How in the word literal came to mean “mindless” is beyond me.

So, I am a literate creationist. I read the text literately.

[betty boop]

A key point is that the Absolute does not deny our freedom, but is its first and last guarantor. Once you understand this, then you should immediately understand the danger of the left, which again replaces the Absolute with its own totalistic and coercive philodoxy....

Current dogma holds that all cultures and moral values are conditional, nothing human is innate.... Challenging this position, Gairdner argues that relativism is not only logically and morally self-defeating but that progress in scientific and intellectual disciplines has actually strengthened the case for absolutes, universals, and constants of nature and human nature.

Gairdner refutes the popular belief in cultural relativism by showing that there are hundreds of well-established cross-cultural 'human universals'. He then discusses the many universals found in physics — as well as Einstein's personal regret at how his work was misinterpreted by the public's eagerness to promote relativism....

So, one of the 'paradoxes' (not really, since it makes perfect sense) is that liberal relativism leads to the false absolute that in turn paves the way for totalitarianism in all its guises (eg., political correctness, speech codes, government regulation of "corporate" speech, the monomania of multiculturalism, cultural marxism masquerading as 'diversity,' the harsh intolerance of the tolerance mongers, etc.)....

Here is one thing that puzzles me about our trolls. Let's stipulate that I am indeed a dangerous, deluded, and obnoxious assoul. That being the case, why on earth would you want there to be any possibility of someone like me micromanaging your life? Because it is for the very reason that I regard you as a dangerous, deluded and obnoxious assoul that I don't want you or anyone else micromanaging mine. Is that really so outrageous?

Wonderful, dear Matchett-PI!!! Thank you so very much for posting!

And I just loved this:

Yes, bodily tissue breaks down in order for life to continue, but that is not the purpose of your life. Nor is stupidity the purpose of intelligence, at least outside liberal academia.

:^)