If liberals play their cards right, this collapse could provide them with a powerful rhetorical bludgeon. Take the stem-cell debate, where the great questions are moral, not scientific--whether embryonic human life should be created and destroyed to prolong adult human life. Liberals might win that argument on the merits, but it's by no means a sure thing. The conservative embrace of intelligent design, however, reshapes the ideological battlefield. It helps liberals cast the debate as an argument about science, rather than morality, and paint their enemies as a collection of book-burning, Galileo-silencing fanatics.
Well, I don't believe in intelligent design myself. But I'm curious how it makes conservatives look like crackpots in comparison to what many liberals believe:
That America is inherently evil
That abortion is a right but capital punishment is wrong
That it's wrong to pray in school but vital to teach homosexuality
That illegal aliens haven't done anything illegal
That it's a good idea to create diversity of languages and cultures, even though every multicultural country in the past has disintegrated.
I could go on, but there's only so much bandwidth in the world.
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It's interesting that Douthat assumes all liberals are scientifically-savvy evolutionists. My experience with the vast majority of Democrats is that they are, for the most part, scientifically and mathematically illiterate and that they generally believe in creation. The professor/media folks are a different story.
I'm being called a crackpot, so I'll just slink off into the shadows....
Seeing as this writer describes racism & eugenics as traditional right-wing values, I doubt that he genuinely want to prevent harm to the right.
I read that and stopped reading.
Sounds a lot like the evo crowd here.
In other words, if we all become athiests, we will be "accepted" by the Left and they won't call us ignorant rubes anymore.
YEC INTREP
And what's the next step after that; an irreparable Great Schism of the GOP between the atheists and the people of faith?
Of course, I never fail to find amusement in the observation that the Evo crowd simply cannot pass by anything ID or Creationist without comment. It just cannot be done. There's always something; an epithet; derogation; snide monologue -- something. Thankfully, most stop short of brain-dumping the entire chronology of evolutionist thought, so I suppose I must give some credit for restraint.
But, then, I'm just the sort who, knowing all of this, would pose as a Creationist simply for the great theater it evokes.
CURTAIN!
What arrogant idiots these leftist goons are. The American right consists of lots of people who are scientifically sophisticated, and reject the leftists' ridiculous ideas of what makes America tick.
I would rather stand up for God than be on the side of pure evil like the left no matter what the cost thank you very much.
I am one conservative that says, look God created it. That's what I believe and who I worship. You want me to believe ANYTHING else, you better prove it beyond the shadow of a doubt and even then, no promises.
The cat says ""I have always imagined that Hell will be a kind of scientific lab!."
Don't be so sure of that. There are an awful lot of Americans who are no longer buying into the dogma of evolution.
Makes us look like crack-pots to whom...other Liberals?
They already see conservatives as crack-pots....it doesn't matter if a conservative has an evolutionary scientific world view....liberals will see them as crackpots any way!
Makes us look like crack-pots to whom...other Liberals?
They already see conservatives as crack-pots....it doesn't matter if a conservative has an evolutionary scientific world view....liberals will see them as crackpots any way!