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- Subject: Re: Ideology and Indoctrination
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.120522.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- From: kmagnacca@eagle.wesleyan.edu
- Date: 25 Jan 93 12:05:22 EST
- References: <1k0tpu$5mp@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <1k0tpu$5mp@agate.berkeley.edu>, philjohn@garnet.berkeley.edu (Phillip Johnson) writes:
- >
- > [main article deleted]
- >
- > Darwinist indoctrination makes its victims incapable of
- > understanding that the fundamental problem of biological
- > evolution, or creation,
- > [blah blah blah]
- >
- > I recognize that this frank talk will cause offense. My purpose
- > is not to insult anyone, however, but to free minds. Many of you
- > have been indoctrinated not to question assumptions that are
- > based on ideology rather than evidence. You can be free of that
- > indoctrination if you wish to be.
-
- You were doing all right until you got down to these last two
- paragraphs. I don't take offense at what you said in the rest of the
- article, although I think it's wrong, but in your final conclusions
- above. Your assumption that all who support Darwinism are indoctrinated
- robots and your condescending, I'm-right-and-you're-wrong attitude is
- highly insulting to my intelligence and that of the others on the net.
-
- BTW, posting occasional long articles is *not* discussion. If you
- wish to discuss these matters you will have to respond to followups
- instead of remaining in your ivory tower complaining that your opinion
- is suppressed.
-
- Karl
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