“Darwinist” is a ludicrous label, designed to be on the same sinister par with “Hitlerite” or “Stalinist”. I’m a proud “Copernican” because I believe the earth orbits the sun, and a “Einsteinist” too, because I accept that E = MC2, and a “Newtonist”, because I believe gravity makes objects fall, not God. I suppose I’m close-minded and thuggish because I don’t think physics classes should be forced to recognize the divine intelligence behind falling objects.
> I suppose I’m close-minded and thuggish because I don’t think physics classes should be forced to recognize the divine intelligence behind falling objects.
Actually you are close-minded because you fail to ask “why does gravity make the objects fall?”
The great scientists were great because they questioned convention and sought truth. Einstein recognized the hand of the divine in science. Natural law is no less God’s creation than anything else.
It’s closed-minded and thuggish to pound into a child’s head that they are, without question, apes. Once convinced of that ‘truth’, they’ll not be apt to question anything. ‘Monkey-see, monkey-do’. They’ll buy just about anything they’re taught or shown by self-appointed intellectuals. It’s a force for stagnation and de-humanization rather than enlightenment.
Secular humanism is an oxymoron. Science losing its’ humility and humanity proscribes death. Find me a ‘scientist’ stumping for death, and I’ll show you somebody who has replaced Darwinian theory for religion.
Exactly right. Rhetoric, not serious inquiry and disagreement.