{"id":592,"date":"2008-05-23T23:53:52","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T03:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=592"},"modified":"2008-06-05T10:23:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T14:23:53","slug":"article-on-that-niceville-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"Article on that Niceville thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I posted before about an event<\/a> in Niceville about intelligent design, Expelled, and evolution. I’m a bit late, but here is the local paper’s writeup<\/a> of the event. Sounds like a lot of wacky mumbo-jumbo to me.<\/p>\n

NICEVILLE \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Not religion pitted against science, but philosophy against philosophy.<\/p>\n

In a truly liberal education system, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how academic Nancy Pearcey says educators would approach intelligent design and the theory of evolution.<\/p>\n

Nearly 800 people attended Pearcey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lecture Thursday at Okaloosa-Walton College on the foundation of Darwinism and its far-reaching implications in American culture.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Because strict Darwinians cannot account for morality as more than a social construct to control society, society focuses on political correctness \u00e2\u20ac\u201d not right or wrong, she said.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Referring to books written in recent years from the Darwinian perspective, rape becomes a natural biological phenomenon that is a product of human evolution and sex across the species ceases to be an offense, she said.<\/p>\n

Pearcey cited a number of renowned evolutionary scientists who are hard-pressed to live the same truths outside of the laboratory.<\/p>\n

Many are forced to live with inconsistent beliefs, because with true Darwinism there can be no room for free will, love or human dignity, she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, does anyone here live their life based on “true Darwinism”? I don’t. My simplistic view of what Pearcey is doing here is taking a scientific fact and trying to contort it into a world view philosophy, and then projecting it onto those who don’t subscribe to her own particular belief. That’s just my admittedly uninformed two cents, though. Your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I posted before about an event in Niceville about intelligent design, Expelled, and evolution. I’m a bit late, but here is the local paper’s writeup of the event. Sounds like a lot of wacky mumbo-jumbo to me. 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