This week's New Scientist takes a look at those who are not convinced by ideas like Darwinian evolution.
Joel Kontinen
Evolutionists have studied their Orwell well and adopted his newspeak. As exemplified by this week's New Scientist, they characterise dissidents as “opponents of science”, “the forces of anti-science” and those who hold “apparently perverse positions.”
New Scientist informs us, for instance, that Discovery Institute is “a conservative think-tank that seeks to undermine the teaching of evolution in US schools… After failing to get biblical creationism taught in science classes, the institute came back with the ‘scientific’ concept of intelligent design, and two carefully researched talking points: ‘evolution is just a theory’ and ‘teach the controversy’. "
One cannot obviously expect New Scientist to check its facts as very little (if anything) in the above quote is actually true.
The basic problem is that Darwinian evolution is taught as dogma in schools almost everywhere. The only thing that dissidents have an issue with is the dogmatism of evolutionists. They propagate their pet theory with almost religious zeal and do their utmost to silence all dissent.
Sources:
Aldhouse, Peter. 2011. Science in America: Selling the truth. New Scientist 2836: 42-45.
Why America should put its trust in reason. New Scientist 2836: 3.
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