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Toward a secular Postdarwinism
Posted by: nemonemini on May 23, 2005 5:51 PM

I wouldn't think intelligent design in the class room could ever be much fun. But then again dogma works both ways. I know from my own experience that my education didn't start til I graduated from college. FINALLY, after a few years of mental self-repair, my education actually began. These poor kids in school are preyed on by rival 'creepy' religious types, Christian or Darwinist. Their ability to learn can't be allowed to survive.
This disastrous situation should be blamed on Darwin fanatics, not Creationists. Noone forced Darwinists to suppress the problems in the theory, or forbade them from simply saying they didn't yet have a theory of evolution. Honesty would have disarmed fundamentalists at the first step.
The obstensible objective in the ID promo is to introduce balance in the class room. Very well, a friend of mine is Buddhist, why not bring in Buddhist views on evolution (?!).

Why couldn't Darwinists have done the job of self-critique right fifty years ago plus at the founding of the Synthesis (another hype machine job not unlike the ID movement) and trained a generation of competent biologists also competent to critique their own theory.
The ridiculous presumption in these discussions is we have to toe the line on Darwinism to be secular straights. The in crowd has to be either misinformed 'stupid smart' in the geek mode, or simply mendacious in public about baloney.
Why not simply acknowledge that the Darwin paradigm on natural selection is inadequate and get on with it. It won't be the end of the world. We didn't have to have this pointed out by the Bible Belt. Is it so much more difficult than rocket science to do the simple thing?

It is insulting to be force fed this Darwin propaganda as an antidote to the ID challenge. Everyone in the media is too intimidated by the party line to do any actual thinking, and organizations like NCSE act like an ideological mind control org.
It is possible to thumb one's nose at ID, toss Darwin's theory out the window, and survive the gesture. The result is a moment of clarity in the ocean of verbiage on both sides of the so-called debate.
John Landon
http://eonix.8m.com/etc/darw1.htm