Re: Draft: "Why We Should Teach About Creationism in Science Classes"

From: Chris Devol (eat_at_joes.pub)
Date: 03/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:10:19 GMT

"Cygnus X-1" <cygnusx1@mac.com> wrote in message
news:0001HW.BE55303700A09208F02845B0@news.radix.net...
> Still trying to track down some references (and pointers from those in
> the group would be appreciated). References are linked on the web site
> version (see bottom of the main page).
>
> =======
> Why We Should Teach About Creationism in Science Classes
> W.T. Bridgman, Ph.D.
> cygnusx1@mac.com
> "Dealing with Creationism in Astronomy",
> http://homepage.mac.com/cygnusx1/
>
> Draft

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> Since the dawn of the atomic age in WWII, science has enjoyed the
> grateful generosity of taxpaying public.

Replace "grateful generosity of" with "money extorted at gunpoint from".

> Scientists have used this
> generosity to unlock the tiniest secrets of the atom to the most
> distant regions of the cosmos and has generated useful products and
> methodologies in the process.

Replace "useful products" with "Bhopal, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Love
Canal, Exxon Valdez, Vioxx, Thalidomide, Agent Orange, DDT, Methamphetamine,
Crack Cocaine, and a host of other agents of accelerated death and general
misery".

> In spite of all this advancement, the American scientific community has
> left behind an intellectual vacuum in the education system that
> crackpots and con-artists have been all too willing to fill.

Replace "in spite of all this advancement" with "because of all this
horror".
Replace "crackpots and con-artists" with "the American scientific community"

The "intellectual vacuum" is the logical gap between the so-called
"scientists" claims of "advancement" and the reality of world destruction.
It's newspeak, like"white is black", or "peace is war".

> The
> scientific community has ignored this growing problem and now it
> threatens to infect our society.

How true. The so-called "scientific community" has ignored a great many
facts of life. Indeed, they don't even know what "life" is.

<snip the ever popular accusation that those who oppose Darwinism are like
Stalin and Hitler>

> And we don't need to limit the debunking to creationism. There are a
> plethora of pseudo-science claims with their adherents, many who post
> their ramblings on the World Wide Web. A perusal of Crank dot Net
> yields a cornucopia of pseudoscientific claims from free-energy scams
> to "proofs" that relativity is wrong, with a broad range of
> sophistication. Teaching students how to analyze these claims with
> real science gives them a valuable tool not only for their professional
> future but also for their role as citizens in a
> technologically-advanced society.

Ah, yes, the time-tested bluff of including a non-controversial thing (the
fact that the universe was created) in a list of things "everybody knows"
are wrong. Guilt by association. Just make sure you repeat the list over and
over, so that the association is established in the minds of your victims.

> I've raised this issue with scientists and teachers who express
> reluctance to address debunking pseudo-science in the classroom.
> However, the scientific community can no longer afford the luxury of
> letting this battle play out in the courts and hoping for the best.
> Over the past five years, this problem as grown from a single state to
> challenges all over the United States. The approach I propose gives
> the scientific community the chance to take control of the issue rather
> than continuing in this guerilla war strategy of the Creationists.

At last the real motive is divulged: "Control" over an "issue". What does
that mean? It means that he wants his particular "old boy network" (the
so-called "scientific community" and their government patrons who need a
constant supply of new drugs and weapons to control their increasingly
discontented subjects) to decide what everyone must believe. And it starts
with the indoctrination of children in a particular world view, the world
view of atheistic materialism.

> The scientific community holds all the cards in this debate, it's time
> we play them.

Ah yes, the time-tested bluff of the grifters that "we hold all the cards,
we're just not playing them".

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