MDDM Ch. 32 The Wedge

[Otto]

"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. The very beginning of this
strategy, the "thin edge of the wedge," was Phillip Johnson's critique of
Darwinism begun in 1991 in Darwinism on Trial, and continued in Reason in
the Balance and Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds. Michael Behe's highly
successful Darwin's Black Box followed Johnson's work. We are building on
this momentum, broadening the wedge with a positive scientific alternative
to materialistic scientific theories, which has come to be called the theory
of intelligent design (ID). 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.
(...)
Goethe's Mephistopheles proclaims in Faust:
Despise reason and science,
humanity's greatest strengths,
indulge in illusions and magical practices
that reinforce your self-deception,
and you will be unconditionally lost!

http://www.infidels.org/secular_web/feature/1999/wedge.html

I'm really not sure if this has something to do with "M&D" but I came across
it on a google-search and thought I pass along:
http://www.freethought-web.org/ctrl/archive/wedge_document.html
(enlarge the tree)

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
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Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 10:31 AM
Subject: MDDM Ch. 32 Summary, Notes

>
> There follows a narrative excursus regarding "the Wedge" or
> "Delaware Triangle", which is like the Bermuda Triangle except
> it is the vehicles of lawyers rather than aliens into which all
> property and wealth seems to vanish, "yea unto the year 1900,
> and beyond".
>