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To: puroresu

What you tried to bring up is guilt by association. The problem is, that even if every biologist who teaches evolution is a Satanist, even if they abuse theor children and frighten small doge, even if they are worse than Hitler and Stalin, it doesn't change the science.

I would be happy to conceed that most university professors are considerably left of center. It makes no difference to the science. To argue otherwise is to employ the logic used by feminists and marxists and deconstructionists: ideology=motive=self interest.


849 posted on 12/27/2004 6:49:16 PM PST by js1138 (D*mn, I Missed!)
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To: js1138

Even if they can't type...


850 posted on 12/27/2004 6:50:27 PM PST by js1138 (D*mn, I Missed!)
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To: js1138

Well, your argument that I implied guilt by association is exponentially stronger than the claim that I accused all evolutionists of being leftists. But I really wasn't doing that, either. I suppose it could be a matter of interpretation, as opposed to a matter of fact, so I won't press the point beyond that.

I did indeed draw an analogy. I suggested that leftists entrench themselves and their beliefs through the herding/hiving behavior I described, and that evolution may have become entrenched via a similar process among the ascendant secularist forces of the 19th century. I also noted that modern leftist groups are involved in the "crevo" wars on the pro-evolution side, but that's simply the truth. It doesn't necessarily mean that evolution is wrong, though I'll agree that my instincts tell me that is the case. Being a conservative, that's my default position. :-)

I'll agree you are correct that science is science regardless of ideology.


851 posted on 12/27/2004 7:12:00 PM PST by puroresu
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