Intelligent Design - the Creationists' Latest Wheeze

[Joe Allonby]

I just got a new plasma TV from Best Buy... AND.. I have Comcast ON Demand!

I'm gonna get stoned and watch FOX!

Now, what were we talking about?



On 10/4/05, Rcfchess at aol.com <Rcfchess at aol.com> wrote:
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> From: Rcfchess at aol.com
> To: artkm at execpc.com
> Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 22:43:27 EDT
> Subject: Re: Intelligent Design - the Creationists' Latest Wheeze
>  Don't think it's really accurate (or maybe it is, come to think of it, in
> a way) to call it "willful"; people get conditioned to not think, to accept
> the stupidities that they've been brought up to believe are right and
> automatic and unquestionable...not that that's acceptable if we want a
> better world. I suppose you could say it's willful that they choose to
> remain ignorant rather than allow themselves to at least be open to
> considering other points of view...this is not meant to be interpreted as
> being in favor of creationism, which is not a new idea at all, just a phony
> redressing of old, antiscientific, religious doctrine, which is totally
> unthinking. That, in a way, is the most obnoxious thing about it: its
> hypocritical nature, pretending that it's open-minded when in fact it's
> exactly the opposite.
>  RF
>  In a message dated 10/04/2005 9:14:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> artkm at execpc.com writes:
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> I suppose it's because the average IQ in this country is about 100,
> meaning
> of course that half of them are under that...but that's without factoring
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> willful ignorance. This helps to explain recent political phenomena as
> well.
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> Kent Mueller
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