On 23 Aug 2005, at 4:11 am, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
--- Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Aug 21, 2005, at 5:35 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
--- Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
In part, it is because there are well-organized,
well-funded groups behind the USA's anti-evolution
crusade.
Dave
This is, however, a response that provides no
information. There are well-organized and well-funded
groups in the United States for _everything_. The
amount of money thrown out by the Ford Foundation _by
itself_ is probably more than all of the prominent
right-wing funding sources put together, and George
Soros just might be spending more than everyone else
_combined_ (no one really knows). The question is,
why do such groups exist/have power in the US when
they don't exist elsewhere?
A couple of the other posters suggested an answer,
though. It is a truism said so often that people
forget its meaning that American politics are far less
elite-driven than those of other democracies (see, for
example, the death penalty debate in the US versus
Europe). In this case some of the other posters have
written things wihch suggest that where there are
significant evangelical and/or fundamentalist
religious populations in other industrialized states
they too object - it's just that in the US they are
able to influence the political process, while in
Europe (for example) they are marginalized. This
makes sense.
"there is furious bewilderment here in the universities and the
higher levels of business at the chilly indifference - not to say
hostility - of the Bush White House to science. "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4172504.stm
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