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The Politics of Academic Scientists: Democrats Vastly Outnumber Republicans ("Hard" Sciences)
Creation-Evolution Headlines ^ | 12/03/2004 | Creation-Evolution Headlines

Posted on 12/03/2004 8:17:38 AM PST by bondserv

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1 posted on 12/03/2004 8:17:38 AM PST by bondserv
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To: Elsie; AndrewC; jennyp; lockeliberty; RadioAstronomer; LiteKeeper; Fester Chugabrew; ...

Common sense Ping!


2 posted on 12/03/2004 8:19:34 AM PST by bondserv (Alignment is critical! † [Check out my profile page])
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To: All

I put this in chat because it is not news to most of us.


3 posted on 12/03/2004 8:26:02 AM PST by bondserv (Alignment is critical! † [Check out my profile page])
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To: Outland; Marine_Uncle; liberty2004; cogitator; Old Professer; Jaysun; freestyle

Not surprising at all

ping


4 posted on 12/03/2004 8:26:11 AM PST by GreenFreeper
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To: bondserv
Lopsidedness means that dissenters are avoided or expelled, and that any who survive are very unlikely to be vocal critics of the dominant viewpoints.

Even with the odds greatly against us, they're losing the battle. The truth is hard to destroy.

5 posted on 12/03/2004 8:48:49 AM PST by Dataman
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Important read!

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Happy Freeping!

6 posted on 12/03/2004 8:50:42 AM PST by bondserv (Alignment is critical! † [Check out my profile page])
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To: Dataman
Even with the odds greatly against us, they're losing the battle. The truth is hard to destroy.

As C.S. Lewis said (paraphrasing), "Unleash the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, and He will defend Himself".

Once familiar with the authentic truth, deception is harder to swallow. The enemy, via the Universities deceptions, has reigned long enough.

7 posted on 12/03/2004 8:55:52 AM PST by bondserv (Alignment is critical! † [Check out my profile page])
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To: bondserv

Another predictable outcome, perhaps worthy of its own theory.


8 posted on 12/03/2004 9:07:16 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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Another predictable outcome, perhaps worthy of its own theory.

LOL...

It looks like the Manger scene won't be displayed in the "Hard" science departments this year. :-)

9 posted on 12/03/2004 9:16:31 AM PST by bondserv (Alignment is critical! † [Check out my profile page])
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To: bondserv
Anyone who has taken even a few classes at (almost) any college/university knows the frustrating truth of this story.
Though it seems a daunting task, I think conservatives can "take back" the academic world...think of how we've come to dominate the new media, and how impossible that would have seemed 15-20 years ago.
10 posted on 12/03/2004 9:32:35 AM PST by ohioGOP (Proud member: The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy)
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Like you, I am encouraged.

The power of persuasion, and the lack of a need to use dirty tactics, are our strengths.


11 posted on 12/03/2004 9:45:21 AM PST by bondserv (Alignment is critical! † [Check out my profile page])
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Think many evos will show up to defend their liberal buddies?


12 posted on 12/03/2004 9:56:03 AM PST by Dataman
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To: bondserv

Thanks for the ping!


13 posted on 12/03/2004 10:15:54 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: bondserv

They had to perform a study to determine this? We've known this for a long time.


14 posted on 12/03/2004 10:54:36 AM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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Ping!
15 posted on 12/03/2004 11:28:44 AM PST by SunkenCiv ("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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Outgoing Armey says liberals don't have sci-IQ
Popular Science
Dec 2002
Science, according to Armey, is the stomping ground of conservatives. "Conservatives," said the Texas Republican, "have a deeper intellect and tend to have occupations of the brain in fields like engineering, science and economics. Liberals, on the other hand, tend to flock to occupations of the heart."

...[I]t's not hard to find blue chip scientists who take issue with Armey—including some of the 53 Nobel laureates on the board of the Federation of American Scientists, a social policy organization often described as a "liberal think tank."

"Armey is just completely wrong," says Nobel physicist Steven Weinberg of the University of Texas at Austin. "I have lots of political conversations with other physicists and my impression is that, on average, physicists are extremely liberal in their politics. I certainly am."
Add Steven Weinberg to the enemies lists.

16 posted on 12/03/2004 11:31:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv ("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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To: Dataman
Even with the odds greatly against us, they're losing the battle. The truth is hard to destroy.

Translation: "We are STRONG!"


17 posted on 12/03/2004 1:33:19 PM PST by jennyp (Latest creation/evolution news: http://crevo.bestmessageboard.com)
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To: bondserv
This is hardly surprising. What is the face that conservatism shows to the scientific community? "Godless, eeeeevilooooooshunistsssssss!!!! Bad, bad Darwinists! Keep your kind away from the children!!!"

This drive has found fertile ground in this part of Pennsylvania, where billboards reading, "Many books inform but only the Bible transforms" line the road, and family restaurants offer free booklets titled "What the Bible says about moral purity" and "The Bible is God's word" at the door.

"These brochures give you an idea where some people in this community are coming from," said Jeff Brown, 54, who, along with his wife Carol, 57, resigned from the school board after they voted against changing the biology curriculum.

Yingling, who voted in favor, said she believes God created the world in six days and doesn't believe in evolution "at all." Another board member who supported the measure, William Buckingham, refused to say what he believes but has identified himself as a born-again Christian.

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"A guy came up to me and said, 'Wait a minute, you believe in God and evolution at the same time? Evolution isn't in the Bible!' " said Brown, nibbling on a deep-fried mozzarella stick at the Shiloh Family Restaurant on Route 74. As he became more agitated, his voice grew louder, and other customers -- mostly gray-haired women and elderly men in baseball hats -- turned their heads to look at the couple. Carol Brown kept putting her index finger to her lips, gesturing for her husband to be quieter.

After the Browns left the restaurant, a waitress in her 30s slipped a note to a Chronicle reporter.

"Beware," it read. "God wrote over 2,000 years ago that there would be false prophets and teachers. If you would like to know the truth read the Bible."
- Anti-evolution teachings gain foothold in U.S. schools


18 posted on 12/03/2004 1:56:39 PM PST by jennyp (Latest creation/evolution news: http://crevo.bestmessageboard.com)
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It's posts like this (not yours, Jenny, the original article!)which illustrate the attitude which has driven so many bright people away from even considering examining the ideas of conservatism or libertarianism. And for the record, The National Association of Scholars, the most powerful organization standing up for conservatives in the academy, is strongly pro-evolution, and against the injection of junk like Intelligent Design (the postmodernism of the Right) into any educational curriculum.


19 posted on 12/03/2004 4:35:25 PM PST by RightWingAtheist (Marxism-the creationism of the left)
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To: bondserv

Why the focus on Science?

ALL fields of study are this way!

Even though you don't like their theology and politial view: they SURE know how to proselyze!


20 posted on 12/04/2004 5:26:59 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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