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deadman_932



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 02 2006,05:52   

The USA Today Op-Ed piece is found here: http://www.usatoday.com/news....t_x.htm . The European polling data mentioned in the article from Ron Lesthaeghe and Johan Surkyn can be found here:   http://econpapers.repec.org/article....3A3.htm .

The conclusions reached in the article made me think of a few historical situations that run counter to the thesis, like the 1960's -- I don't think that generation of liberals arose from anything else but a conservative majority. Granted, the majority remained conservative, but a large percentage did not. Political ideology is subject to too many variables to be so glibly forecast.

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Ichthyic



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 02 2006,10:19   

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One doesn't have to like this trend to acknowledge its existence.


yes, but this "trend" has nothing to do with selection or evolution, which is why i mentioned the preponderance of catholics in mexico.

it isn't "knowledge", but is a mere misrepresentation of observation based on ignorance.

something you and skeptic seem to share.

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"Rev Dr" Lenny Flank



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 02 2006,15:49   

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Yes, that's right --- Dembski is being outsold, four to one, by a lunatic dictator who shot himself in the head sixty years ago.


Well, Lenny, we both know there's a very simple reason for that.

Hitler had a massive impact on the history of the world in the 20th century. Caused a war, killed millions of people, turned Europe upside down. Set the world up for the start of the Cold War. A book of his self-indulgent rantings provides a lot of insights as to why he did it all. That's of interest to a lot of people.

Dembski? He's a dishonest shmuck who teaches at a jerkwater Bible college in Texas who isn't taken seriously by anyone with any credentials in any of the fields he purports to write about. He churns out ridiculous books and sells them to gullible people for a living. In 10-20 years (generously) he'll be a very minor footnote in the history of American fundamentalism's attempts to wreck science and higher learning.

Hard not to see who's more, uh, important.

Come on, more important than THE ISAAC NEWTON OF INFORMATION THEORY ??????????

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