re: #183 Syrah

I am amazed that the Creationist have gotten this far.

Appalling.

FWIW, most people are asleep on the issue. Americans are fair minded people, and the wedge strategy intends to exploit that.

The language of “different points of view” that dominates education has created a beach for them to land on.

There aren’t “different points of view” in physics. or math. or biology. But that construct has lazy minded people thinking that a competing “theory” should be given a chance, even though it doesn’t meet the standard of scientific theory.

The “soft disciplines” in education created the notion that narrative trumps deduction - the linguistic idea that there are no hard truths, just perspectives. That has now bled into the hard sciences. Hell - there are professors in “Feminist Economics” out there. That the DI has made progress in such an environment doesn’t really shock me.