(October 18, 2015 at 7:08 am)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: They are highly effective in propagandizing the layperson, and personally I consider them to be evil. If you don't believe me that they are trying to muddy the waters for their own purpose, read it in their own words in "The Wedge Document", preserved for us by the National Center for Science Education:
http://ncse.com/creationism/general/wedge-document
Good find
Quote:The social consequences of materialism have been devastating. As symptoms, those consequences are certainly worth treating. However, we are convinced that in order to defeat materialism, we must cut it off at its source. That source is scientific materialism. This is precisely our strategy. If we view the predominant materialistic science as a giant tree, our strategy is intended to function as a "wedge" that, while relatively small, can split the trunk when applied at its weakest points.
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Design theory promises to reverse the stifling dominance of the materialist worldview, and to replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions.
Quote:Governing Goals
To defeat scientific materialism and its destructive moral, cultural and political legacies.
To replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and human beings are created by God.
They really are evil fuckers out to destroy mankind's progress.