Kristine
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| Quote (Tracy P. Hamilton @ Sep. 28 2011,16:13) | DeNews being an IDiot:
| Quote | | Peer review is, in the end, a victim of self-inflicted injury. And Karl Giberson is the last man alive, according to his own testimony, who really, truly believes in it. |
Somebody obviously has a severe cognitive deficit, to say that about a person who writes:
| Quote | | In our new book, "The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age," historian Randall Stephens and I look at the widespread and disturbing inability of American evangelicals to distinguish between real knowledge claims, rooted in serious research and endorsed by credible knowledge communities, and pseudo-claims made by unqualified groups and leaders that offer "faith-friendly" alternatives. Across the board we find evangelical Christians attracted to indefensible views in many areas: American history (the Founding Fathers intended America to be a Christian nation), sexual orientation (you can "pray away the gay"), climate change (not happening), evolution (never happened), cosmology (Big Bang is a big joke) and even biblical studies (the bible tells us what is about to happen in the Middle East). |
And how does science as a whole create a real knowledge base? The peer-reviewed literature. All scientists know this, and believe it, because it works. By the way, UD hits on four of these pseudo-claims, if you count the Bible Code debacle of Dembski for an example of the latter. |
All creationism is is an attempt to control, and thus "predict," the future, and thus scare people into doing what creationists want, and living the way that they think we should live. Peer review is decentralized, nonauthoritarian, so naturally it gets dissed.
Creationism adapts not so much to new scientific knowledge as to their own new ideas of how the worldly are "corrupt." I remember a time when conservatives insisted that Jesus kept his hair short (Rev. Cecil Maxey) and paid his taxes. Sshh! Don't tell the T-publicans!
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