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No idea if the quote is accurate, but it makes sense to me. Consider the analogue: "the concept of Magick thwarts scientific progress." Or "pop culture celebtra
by judk 13y ago
No idea if the quote is accurate, but it makes sense to me. Consider the analogue: "the concept of Magick thwarts scientific progress." Or "pop culture celebtration of ignorance thwarts scientiofc progress."
- acqq 13y agoIt seems you're also trying to muddy the waters: a) It's not the quote (i.e. what somebody actually said or written) we discuss but the "interpretation" written by unknown or known Wikipedia troll b) The mentioned interpretation uses "the advance of scientific knowledge" not "scientific progress." Public is trained to recognize that being against the progress is bad, but the same detectors aren't triggered by "scientific knowledge" against which ID explicitly fights. The only quote that can be properly written there in Wikipedia citing the video linked would be "Intelligent Design is philosophy of ignorance." That's what he actually said there. The actual quote and the manipulative interpretation are by no means interchangeable.
- judk 13y agoI wasn't trying to muddy waters, I was trying to type on a phone, so I paraphrased from memory. The terms I switched are interchangable to me (anecdata). ID absolutely does not vilify "scientific knowledge" per se. The whole point of ID is that it is a pseudoscientific rebranding of creationism, run by "Discovery Institute" that purports to find evidence for God.