Do you think your troll is also an anti-evolutionist? Anti-science is a package deal.
This is very true.
There seem to be far too many people whose idea of what "science" is is merely a projection of their own self-indulgent fantasies. The earth was created in 4004BC? Sounds a cozy idea! So that's what the "science" must say. And all those elitist guys in the white coats are just fakers, trying to pull the wool over the eyes of us good God-fearin' red-blooded patriotic . . .
Of course, the trouble is that genuine knowledge/science, for all its flaws and gaps, offers what's generally a progressively closer depiction of reality, and reality doesn't give two hoots for what our plucky "free thinker" would like it to be.
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Date: 2009-12-04 09:49 pm (UTC)Do you think your troll is also an anti-evolutionist? Anti-science is a package deal.
This is very true.
There seem to be far too many people whose idea of what "science" is is merely a projection of their own self-indulgent fantasies. The earth was created in 4004BC? Sounds a cozy idea! So that's what the "science" must say. And all those elitist guys in the white coats are just fakers, trying to pull the wool over the eyes of us good God-fearin' red-blooded patriotic . . .
Of course, the trouble is that genuine knowledge/science, for all its flaws and gaps, offers what's generally a progressively closer depiction of reality, and reality doesn't give two hoots for what our plucky "free thinker" would like it to be.
Oh, and I must apologize for my French, ma'am!