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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Ideology and Indoctrination
- Message-ID: <106649@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 19:01:01 GMT
- References: <1k0tpu$5mp@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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- In-reply-to: philjohn@garnet.berkeley.edu (Phillip Johnson)
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- In article <1k0tpu$5mp@agate.berkeley.edu>, philjohn@garnet (Phillip Johnson) writes:
- >Darwinist indoctrination makes its victims incapable of understanding [...]
-
- Unlike Kaka Doodoo indoctrination, right? So how many hours do _you_
- chant daily?
-
- >I recognize that this frank talk will cause offense.
-
- No, just yawns. We've seen creationists mouth off with their ignorant
- hatred before, and we'll continue to see them mouth off with their
- ignorant hatred again and again and again. Boring....
-
- > 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.
-
- Go for it. Give us all that evidence that reveals what we've been
- missing out on. Skip all the philosophical foreplay--the kind which
- creationists specialize in over and over and over again--and just spell
- the evidence out for us--we've been waiting years and years for this
- last little step.
- --
- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
-