[Horse] I was wondering.... would you think that the root cause of this faith-based reductionist approach is the failure of Intelligent Design to gain the ground the theists wanted...
[Arlo] Yeah, I think this is a large part of it. I think too of the "creationist institutes" that sought to use anthropology, geology, etc to "prove" that the age of the earth was 4000 years old. This was largely (and rightly) ignored, and so the next strategy seems to be "well, if my thinking the earth is only 4000 years old is a matter of faith, then your thinking its 4 billion years old is simply a matter of faith too". This is mirrored in the strategies the ID'ers have deployed as well. At first, ID was a "comparable science". Now, evolution is "just another faith-based idea". Anti-intellectuals in this country have latched onto this as a way to denigrate "science" from having any explanatory superiority over "religion", using Asimov's term "Scientism" to portray "science" as a religion itself. [Horse] Seems like it's time for a change of tack in theist-land and this could be the new approach - if you can't match it try and drag it down to a lower level. [Arlo] That's how I see it too. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
