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Melanie Phillips Takes a Wrong Turn on 'Intelligent Design' Creationism

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Bob Levin5/04/2009 2:47:20 am PDT

Well, I think I popped into the discussion at #914, so I didn’t get a chance to read everything before, and I’m sorry about that—but let’s say that you do disagree with her, or that, heaven forbid, she is wrong about something, do you think she’s a person beyond reason, beyond rational discussion? I think the problem that so many folks have is that their opinions aren’t subject to discussion or reason. It’s not that folks have opinions or take sides, it’s that once they have an opinion, that’s it. Once they take a side, there’s no amount of evidence that can make them cross back. She doesn’t strike me as being intransigent.