Re: [xmca] avoid these perverts!

The same kind of ambivalence is to be found with all
"postmodernists" actually. Absolute relativism is something
that you just can't live by. For example, when a
"postmodernist" rails against belief in progress as
primitive, ignorant or childish, I always chuckle.

Andy

Tony Whitson wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, David Preiss wrote:
>>
>> I looked for the word evolution there:
>> http://www.conservapedia.com/Evolution and they really work hard to
>> make a credible story!
>> Let us hope that somebody takes the time to put those scientific
>> quotes in the right place/context!
>> By the way according to the website most of the people that "believes"
>> in evolution are liberals!
>
> Earlier, Andy Blunden wrote:
> "Interesting to see the conservatives embracing postmodernism. In the
> olden days, conservatives just had encyclopedias because they believed
> in Truth. Now, as good postmodern relativists, they believe in having a
> different encyclopedia for people with conservative or "liberal" views."
>
> In his book "ONLY A THEORY" Ken Miller [Bio textbook author, and
> pro-science witness in the Dover, Pennsylvania trial) develops the theme
> of anti-evolutionist taking up a relativist/postmodernist stance. But
> they still want to have it both ways: your truth vs. our truth, and TRUE
> truth (ours, i.e., the fundamentalists).
>
> Phillip White wrote:
> "reminds me of nazi, fascists and communist diatribes. most remarkable."
>
> Actually, the story that creationists are telling is that evolutionists
> are like the Nazis, and that Christians are their victims. See this at
> http://scienceblogs.com/evolutionblog/2008/08/report_on_the_sixth_internatio_2.php
> :
>
> "It's almost like Hitler's time. It's almost like we are being so
> indoctrinated, and our teachers are being taught, in our state schools,
> the answers to give when students ask questions. ...
>
> "And we need to get people together and have a plan in place for the
> education system, so we can move forward. ACLU can put out all these
> little fires all over the place just like in Georgia. They see something
> come up and they send a bunch of their Gestapo people there to thwart
> whatever is going on. And we need to have some sort of meeting of
> educators so we can start doing something about it."
>
>> On Aug 27, 2008, at 7:02 PM, Steve Gabosch wrote:
>>
>>> Liberal professor bashing by conservatives seems to be reaching a
>>> new, pseudo-scientific level. This article is kind of a hoot, but it
>>> needs to be taken seriously, in my opinion. It flames the culture
>>> war that is going on in the US. This whole "conservative"
>>> (reactionary) encyclopedia web site aims at that, as well as
>>> discrediting liberal, humanist and socialist thinking. I had no idea
>>> it existed. It is part of a general assault on every bourgeois
>>> democratic and humanist principle developed since the 1600's.
>>>
>>> Hopefully this nonsense about professors will be well answered.
>>>
>>> Thanks again, Peter, for your always interesting links.
>>>
>>> - Steve
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 27, 2008, at 12:43 PM, Peter Smagorinsky wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://www.conservapedia.com/Professor_values
>>>>
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> Tony Whitson
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