Darwinian fundamentalists, and they cling to their absolutist position with all the unyielding certitude with which Southern Baptists assert the literal truth of the Book of Genesis, or Wahabi Muslims proclaim the need for a universal jihad against ‘the Great Satan’. At a revivalist meeting of Darwinians two or three years ago...
Tripe alert! Don't need to read any farther.
The problem is that his description or analogy is apt in so many cases.
This widesread use of Darwin in the culture wars has nothing to do with science and is unfair to Darwin himself, as well as science and scientists.
We don't need your civil war. Don't believe in God, so what. Don't try to say science somehow shows this. The politicization of science by liberals (with iconization of Darwin as the most widespread example) is not science nor has it anything to do with science. And it is very harmful to science on many levels.
"Tripe alert! Don't need to read any farther."
Excellent example of one of Johnson's points:"...denying a hearing to anyone who disagrees with them. " Thank you.
How about Catholic tripe alert.
Awwww- gee, thanks Dad. I so appreciate folks like you lookin' out for the rest of us...
I think "fundamentalist" applies to Dawkins. He writes - way out of his league - on religion. And he's a fundie about this atheism.
We ALL know that only Creo's are FUNDAMENTALISTS and need not be listened to!!!
--EvoDude