Sure is a whole lot of cackling and braying going on over at the Darwin Central barnyard these days!
It is disappointing to see some of the names involved. Oh, well....
As you wrote in your e-mail to me,
And I agree with you that reason itself seems to be under attack. People everywhere seem to want a talking points response to the deep questions – don’t think, parrot. That doesn’t surprise me in the U.S. because students have been conditioned to do precisely that from their earliest years through post-grad....[Ooooppppsss! Please forgive me, Alamo-Girl, I'm selectively quoting/quote mining you. I left out all the Plato and Aristotle. Plato especially is held in contempt over at Darwin Central. No reason given, just "politically correct" abuse.][The evolutionists] routinely accuse their opponents of lying, plagiarizing and any other slur or smear they can muster. Those are spit-wads. If they had a good rational comeback they would use it – they do when they have one....
I don’t think any of them read your posts – they just have a knee jerk reaction especially to quotes of any kind from “our side” of what they perceive to be war.
Anyhoot, thank you for this excellent essay/post. And I'm with you, kiddo:
"If anyone would care to lay aside his talking points and pick up his thinking cap – then, bring it on – and we’ll let the readers judge for themselves if we are boobs (ignorant and foolish) --- who is reasoning and who is parroting --- and which is more valuable."Seems eminently reasonable to me....
Are you sure?? I see they have almost 27,000 posts there, have you read all of them? Wouldn't want to make a knee-jerk assumption, you know.
Plato especially is held in contempt over at Darwin Central. No reason given, just "politically correct" abuse.
Interesting read