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Religions > Atheism |
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"Jason Spaceman" |
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30 Jan 2006 05:49:10 AM |
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Commentary: Tribal America defends right to ignore facts |
From the article:
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By Jon Margolis
Published January 29, 2006
The flap over intelligent design poses a special quandary for us
Americans. Our puzzlement has nothing to do with the merits of the
intelligent design argument. There are none.
Instead, the question is: Why us? What is it about the United States
that makes us particularly vulnerable to this particular foolishness?
It is largely an American contretemps. There are little flashes of it
elsewhere, but they rarely rise to the level plaguing us here in the
good old U.S. of A. Embarking on a trip to Europe recently, the head
of the pro-intelligent design C.S. Lewis Society half-seriously
described his destination as the "the dark continent,"
anti-Darwinially speaking.
Surely we are not more ignorant than foreigners. Our engineers come up
with at least as many gizmos as Europeans, Asians, Canadians and South
Americans. Our scientists win more than their share of prizes. Our
universities attract the best and brightest from all over the world.
We do seem to be more religious than the Europeans. But there are lots
of devout folks over there, and even more in Latin America, from
whence come few debates over intelligent design. Besides, for a
century or more, millions of devout church/synagogue/mosque-goers have
found their faith untroubled by the reality of evolution.
Happily, we have a possible answer to our puzzle, courtesy of Ted
Nugent, the clean-living, outspoken singer-guitarist and hunter.
A recent New York Times story described Nugent holding a bloody liver
from a freshly killed deer and proclaiming: "Big bangs don't make
this. God made that. Things banging don't make livers."
Forget for a moment that his outburst means nothing whatsoever. It's
not the content that counts here, but the mood, which is angry and
gets angrier as he proceeds: "Biodiversity is mine, environmentalism
is mine. It doesn't belong to Pam Anderson."
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Read it at
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0601290227jan29,0,5252999.story
J. Spaceman
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| Title: Re: Commentary: Tribal America defends right to ignore facts |
30 Jan 2006 02:34:44 PM |
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Jason Spaceman wrote:
From the article:
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By Jon Margolis
Surely we are not more ignorant than foreigners. Our engineers come up
with at least as many gizmos as Europeans, Asians, Canadians and South
Americans. Our scientists win more than their share of prizes. Our
universities attract the best and brightest from all over the world.
The scientists and engineers that creat all of these marvelous things
represent about 1% of the population. This still leaves 99% to be as
ignorant as (lets just say) sin.
We do seem to be more religious than the Europeans.
I submit that that is a major part of the problem with being ignorant.
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