03.05.10
Darwin debat, climate debate
Surprise! Morons who hate Darwin also hate Al Gore
The Discovery group ought to be cognizant of the damage they do to the Darwin debate, and the critique of Darwinism when they meld it the climate debate.
And the defenders of Darwinism must be laughing up their sleeve at this windfall to defend their con.
Those intellectual giants are back, and this time they’re attempting to attack Climate Change using the same strategies – namely by playing the victim and by attempting to muddy the water with ”differing” views. These two strategies often overlap, as is perfectly illustrated by John G West, of the fundamentalist Discovery Institute in Seattle. Leslie Kaufman, the Times reporter, quotes him as saying:
“There is a lot of similar dogmatism on [the climate change] issue,” he said, “with scientists being persecuted for findings that are not in keeping with the orthodoxy. We think analyzing and evaluating scientific evidence is a good thing, whether that is about global warming or evolution.” [emphasis added.]
West’s bizarre allegations make it seem as though there is a Science Mafia, hellbent on enforcing set-in-stone “orthodoxy.” That makes sense, I guess, because if there’s one group of people opposed to rigorous examination of held beliefs, it’s scientists. Yes, it is often science, not religion, who desperately clings to out-dated or unprovable positions as though their very institutional survival depends on it.