I know of the link already. But I was already familiar with the Aldous Huxley distortion, and knew it was a distortion without having to search the web. Creationist fibs usually circulate through here at least 50 times before we've shamed all of you into giving them up, and then you just go find some more. But this particular fib was in my strike zone, you might say; when I was in college, I read pretty much everything Huxley ever wrote, from Crome Yellow to Island. Hey, the sixties got to Ireland about 10 years late :-)
You apparently have all of us figured out, as victims of broken homes (my parents would be amused to learn this, were they still around; they would have celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this year). And you have the advantage, of me at least. I don't understand you all at all. As PH once said, it's like whack-a-mole. You never learn, and you never change. Once 'Huxley was an atheist' is slapped down, we'll have 'Dawkins is a Marxist' or 'Genomics says chickens are closer to humans than monkeys' again.
And you wonder why we're so contemptuous and arrogant.
Honestly, I don't have you guys all figured out. For one thing, why on earth would anyone read everything Huxley ever wrote? Didn't you even consider what I said about predictions as opposed to prophecy? You shouldn't be reading junk, b/c you'll dream about it. Then you'll get it hardwired into your mind during the REM cycle of sleep, and then it is, wa la, part of you. Think of the day's thoughts are tons of unwinding balls of yarn. By the end of the day, you have a tangled mass in your head. REM serves to detangle all of it, and then in addition, weaves all of it into the reference map for thinking...
No wonder you are not a golfer - to you, golf doesn't make sense, does it? It is not something to be experienced, but endured, maybe ... like bowling perhaps. rwp, the key to mutual demystification is golf. I'm sure of this.
And I don't wonder at all the contempuousness and arrogance - recall I have walked many halls of academia, listened thoughtfully to guest seminars, and sipped white wine and munched cheese. It is a familiar tune, first off, and second off, there is definitely a basic wisdom reason as well. You guys are not merciful. In general, a proper reaction to a 'lost conservative' should be mercy. Even more so if one or more of them are deliberately deceptive. Such people, in truth, can only be bad for the Republican Party, in that a narrow group of noncommited voters is their only audience. But they are certainly not going to vote for Hillary. They are indeed on the 'right' side of the fence, and thus merit mercy. Their religious beliefs are definitely NOT going to create more democrats. But, somehow, such people earn, here at the premier conservative forum, not mercy. But contempt. So, what does this do? Whose interests are served as a wedge is so thoroughly driven between 'rational conservatives' and 'social conservatives', esp if the latter get demoralized ... by an 'ally'?
And as for never learning, if someone would link to one mainstream conservative magazine which denounces I.D. as harmful for repbulicans, maybe that would make a difference. But it is the ubiquitousness of that view here, and its absence out there, which convinces me of what should be 'learned'.