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I'd say it's more like cognitive dissonance on the part of educated creationists. They have to reconcile the fact that they live in the modern world with the fa
by pushingbits 17y ago
I'd say it's more like cognitive dissonance on the part of educated creationists. They have to reconcile the fact that they live in the modern world with the fact that they believe in something that has no place in it.
- netsp 17y agoI don't see a flood of educated creationists embracing intelligent design in its common forms.
- pushingbits 17y agoNo? In my experience intelligent design proponents tend to be better educated than plain old creationists. Moreover in environments where most people embrace science, you are much more likely to find an IDer than a creationist. Intelligent design makes it possible for people to keep their crufty notions without feeling like troglodytes. But since it really is just a slim veneer of jingoist science, on some level they still feel insecure about it, which is why they need official institutions to recognize it. Of course there some people who consciously use intelligent design to get creationism back into the classroom, but I don't think that the majority of people who subscribe to it are so calculating. Never ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by psychology.
- netsp 17y agoNow I'm curious. Are there any real biologists promoting this?