>"I keep waiting for the fundamentalist Christians
>to attack PBS for science series like the recent
>_Secret of Life_, a fascinating study of DNA that
>matter-of-factly confirmed the theory of evolution.
>So far, not a peep from the creationists."
>
>I can't wait to see what comes of this!
>
      As anyone who heard NPRs "Talk of the Nation" last Friday can attest,
you didn't have to wait long.  Philip Johnson is already claiming that this
is an example of something he calls "metaphysical materialism" or some such
phrase.  This is supposedly the Godless Philosophical System you Evilutionists
are foisting on our innocent school children in science classes by not
adding "God makes this happen" to every mention of a scientific principle.
      That was my first Johnson in action, BTW.  The man is a slick
propagandist and a shrewd debater.  He also knows that if you talk first and
longest and have no compunctions about interrupting your opponents and
talking over them, you can often browbeat them into silence.
      Alas, his opponents are often scientists who are too rational, honest,
and polite to deal effectively with his pit-bull approach, if this exchange
was any indication.

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      *       The_Doge of South St. Louis                        *