As I said: "it's that they seem to lack the basic skill of thinking -- and far too many of their audience seem likewise to lack that skill". It's the inability -- or refusal -- to reason . . . and as such it does indeed bear many resemblances to religious faith.
Yet these people pretend to rationality, to reason, and therefore, when they abuse it, they need to be called on this -- in the same way that Creation Scientists need to be called on the "science" part of their claims. (There are of course lots of other reasons to confront creationists, just as there are legion reasons to confront rightists. But here I'm concerned with a specific remit.)
I liked Kyle's expression, further up the page: "a greed for ignorance"
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As I said: "it's that they seem to lack the basic skill of thinking -- and far too many of their audience seem likewise to lack that skill". It's the inability -- or refusal -- to reason . . . and as such it does indeed bear many resemblances to religious faith.
Yet these people pretend to rationality, to reason, and therefore, when they abuse it, they need to be called on this -- in the same way that Creation Scientists need to be called on the "science" part of their claims. (There are of course lots of other reasons to confront creationists, just as there are legion reasons to confront rightists. But here I'm concerned with a specific remit.)
I liked Kyle's expression, further up the page: "a greed for ignorance"