05.29.07
Hitchens, you’ve got a problem: dirty money
Anyone who 1) supports science and 2) is tired of religious confusion (atheist, perhaps, or not) has to be worried that the stage act of Dawkins, Hitchens, et al. (worth a lot of money) is standard Darwinian/Talk.origins/howler monkey loudmouthing with the volume turned up: the style to hide the ‘problem’. At that decibel level all thought ceases and what we see is bad science mixed with wretchedly bad analysis of religion given media Miracle-Gro because powerful interests want to try a new way to brainwash their market sector. It is effective, therefore a temptation, it could go on forever….maybe. Maybe not. Sooner or later people are going to see they have been had.
Hitchens, you’ve got a problem: at the end of this comedy routine you are going to find that Dawkins on evolution is a fraud, that science let this go on and on, and that the religionists will end up stronger because they were able to blow the whistle on Darwin’s theory (the goof up themselves on ID), where the academic system produced young scientists with their thinking processes retarded by Darwinian dogma.
I suspect the whole thing is just cynical: scientists sense that once you have a paradigm in place it is easy to keep it in motion: steady decibel propaganda.
Great work, guys.
That’s the criminal thing, Hitchens: in the name of science, destroying the science for all these kids raised on Einstein.
Maybe give the money back, Hitchens, dirty money, no?
I don’t consider myself a theist, but after a year of these New Atheists, one has to bail out into some other category.
James said,
May 29, 2007 at 6:48 pm
What perplexes me is that Dawkins gets all of the air time in the scientific community while the real scientists get left in the wasteland. Take somebody like Caltech molecular biologist Eric Davidson(one of the best in the world); the guy has slammed Darwinism in the press (http://www.fredheeren.com/boston.htm) and in his book (http://www.idthefuture.com/2006/02/oh_brother.html). Why does a popularizer have a bigger hold on the scientific community than one of the best molecular biologists?
nemo said,
May 30, 2007 at 6:59 pm
I linked your comment to a post
http://darwiniana.com/2007/05/30/comment-dawkins-gets-all-the-airtime/