(April 17, 2012 at 10:14 am)mediamogul Wrote: My point was just that it's no longer "Darwinism" and people who call it such are usually trying to make the argument that it's based on faith and a belief system. All part of that wedge strategy.
Indeed. Such people don't seem to grasp that scientific advances stand on their own merit and that of the supporting evidence totally independent of any authority figure, no matter how eminent or revered. Time and again they conflate the man (or woman) with the science in a vain attempt to discredit both. They don't realise that by mislabelling science with the trappings of their own belief system, they are in fact ridiculing the support structure that gave them the platform in the first place.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
