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To: Liberty1970

What the simple-minded fail to understand is that market competition, AKA the popularity contest, works with material goods because there is no universal truth about which is the best car, or the best television set, or the best hamburger.

In areas where there is a universal truth, the truth is not determined by a popularity contest or a majority vote. O.J. Simpson was found not guilty because his high-priced lawyers succeeded in making the idea of his innocence more popular than the idea of his guilt among the jury. But that doesn’t change the fact that O.J. Simpson is guilty of murder. If 51% of scientists say that humans are causing the earth to warm and cap-and-trade is the only thing that can save us, that won’t make it so. If 51% of Americans say that the earth is 6000 years old, that won’t make it so either.

Anyway, these fools who are pimping young-earth creationism don’t want it to compete in a free marketplace of ideas, they want a theocratic government to ram it down our throats by force of law, while banning any competing theories. That doesn’t sound very free-market to me.

Why do young-earth creationists call themselves scientists when everything they do is completely anti-scientific? Their main argument is, “God says I’m right and anyone who disagrees is going to hell.” Yeah, really scientific.


163 posted on 12/08/2009 11:16:12 PM PST by JillValentine (The United States of America is a secular constitutional republic, not a theocracy.)
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To: JillValentine
Anyway, these fools who are pimping young-earth creationism don’t want it to compete in a free marketplace of ideas, they want a theocratic government to ram it down our throats by force of law, while banning any competing theories. That doesn’t sound very free-market to me.

Except, you don't have evidence to support your screed. Young-earth creationists in the form of our founding fathers gave you the freedoms you enjoy, because we believe in a Creator God who gave everyone freedom of conscience and freedom of will. And that's why every significant creationary organization out there supports competitive education (teach both sides, or at least allow individual teachers freedom to teach without persecution), rather than the current one-sided monopoly.

Whereas we have plenty of proof of the exact opposite - of harassment and persecution, job losses, threats and intimidation and more, from evolutionary fanatics. (See for example Dr. Jerry Bergman's work in Slaughter of the Dissidents).

So if you really care about liberty, why are you standing with the fascists who have been very plain in saying they believe in persecuting and harassing creationists and that it is justifiable to do so? Of course, anything is justifiable in an evolutionary worldview ('might makes right'), so I'm not surprised at your hypocrisy.

165 posted on 12/09/2009 5:37:09 AM PST by Liberty1970 (Democrats are not in control. God is. And Thank God for that!)
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