QUOTE(Doc glasgow @ Fri 21st January 2011, 11:27am)
Intelligent liberals tolerate horoscopes, Scientology, new-age mantras, feng shui, and any other amount of unscientific mumbo-jumbo. Why is it that ID so causes their blood to boil? If they are so confident of the strength of the intellectual argument against it, why are they so bloody defensive? (Even here in the UK, where there is no history of interference with education.)
There is an underbelly of it. Going back to the early 80s a friend of mine had become involved with some fundamentalist Christian sect when we was sent down for drugs. After his release he moved to a Cornwall where there was group of them. On one visit to see him they'd gathered together all of the kids from about 3 or 4 families to show them some Creation Science films they'd got from America. Some of the biggest load of tosh I've ever had the misfortune to see. I felt really sorry that the kids were being subjected to it. However, it was that experience which made me realize what the problem had been with the NI magazine.
As you may have gathered I have no sympathy for those that they prey on weak.
As for horoscopes, feng shui, crystals, and other new-age crap, they are rarely as debilitating as the GOD MADE US crapology, from fundamentalist Christians, Moslems, Jews, apologies to any of the other fuckwits that I may have missed out. I may revise that when the astrologers start demanding equal time in school along side Astronomy.
QUOTE(Doc glasgow @ Fri 21st January 2011, 11:27am)
Kelly is correct, if the anti-ID position is so strong, then gaming the article should be utterly unnecessary.
People simply like to mock those that are thought to be inferior. It is part of the human experience. If you don't want then kick the crap out, or settle on a fixed version of it. There is no valid reason for it being continually tinkered with by either side.