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To: Heartlander
Another non-biologist, non-paleontologist pronounces on the moribundity of Darwinism. I own two of Belinski's books (Black Mischief and A Tour of the Calculus). He employs pseudo-literary flourishes in the service of the popularization of ideas that he himself didn't originate.

I guess a (paid?) sinecure at the Discovery Institute is the closest he could get to academic tenure at a real university.

10 posted on 03/09/2005 1:05:56 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: snarks_when_bored

Spelling correction to previous post: Berlinski.


11 posted on 03/09/2005 1:06:59 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: snarks_when_bored; Heartlander; DannyTN
Another non-biologist, non-paleontologist pronounces on the moribundity of Darwinism.

Well, Snarks, looks like you stepped in it this time. Let's just take a little quiz and see what YOU know -- or don't know as the case may be (and likely is). Shall we?

Was Darwin an esteemed academically accomplished paleontologist? Was he an accomplished biologist? Was he academically distinguished is any field of the natural sciences? Can you tell me what academic training he had which informed his evo-fantasy? Was he sufficiently peer reviewed and acdemically critiqued for scientific merit before he published? Yes, we all know that Karl Marx read his manuscript for Origin... and had his own Commu-gasm after doing so, but how about some real esteemed, academically accomplished scientists of his time?

How conveniently the Darwin devotees neglect to mention that Darwin was merely an academically failing med school drop out who obtained only a pedestrian level degree in -- of all things -- theology.

You evo-trolls don't bother to do any research on your mouthpieces, do you?

So... when it comes to Darwin here's what you have: a scientifically untrained, unaccomplished, academic drop out with a passing knowledge of theology who hops on a boat, calls himself a naturalist, makes observations about organisms for which he has no demonstrated scientific ability to discern anything substantive about, comes to conclusions about the observations which have no scientific merit, who publishes this canard that gets read by social scientists who hate capitalism.

And they just loved how applicable and "scientific"-sounding it all seemed to support the notions of class warfare, "scientific management theory," and that survival of the fittest crap that gave us those paragons of social engineering and race baiting from the socially darwinistic USSR, to the "genetically superior" Master race Nazis, to Margaret Sanger inspired abortion mills for little "non-persons" in the US -- that sadly some in the field call "medicine."

Agnostics, and posturing "higher critics" looking for a philosophy dressed up as "science" to give them an excuse to act on what they figure are their evolutionary rights to animal instincts glom on to Darwin as their patron saint of self-gratification.

Darwin wasn't an accomplished scientist and Darwinism has nothing to do with the study of real science. It merely forms a premise, and an inherent bias for looking at life through a Godless prism.

And today we have everyone in those affore-mentioned groups from PhDs (who as scientists should think like more like scientists, and stop sucking up to the political group-think) to space cadet Sci-Fi TV saturated trekkies (who think they became scientists watching late not Captain Kirk reruns) worshipping at this guy's feet, and elevating him as their scientific hero merely because they think he has some how figured out a way to do away with God.

Those who worship at the altar of Darwin's dogma of "scientism" do so at their intellectual peril.

61 posted on 03/09/2005 7:52:01 PM PST by Agamemnon
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To: snarks_when_bored
"I guess a (paid?) sinecure at the Discovery Institute is the closest he could get to academic tenure at a real university."

Reverting to the old standby ad hominum. You must be down to the scrapings.

Tell me, If there are no Buddhists in the Baptist choir, does that mean no Buddhists can sing? Maybe you should discuss this with your fellow choir-boys over lunch.

As the Ward Churchill affair has reminded us, tenure at a "real university" about highly selective butt-kissing and little else. It's called "Survival of the Tightest."

82 posted on 03/10/2005 9:44:24 AM PST by cookcounty (LooneyLibLine: "The ONLY reason for Operation Iraqi FREEDOM was WMD!!" ((repeat til brain is numb))
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