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Ben Stein Withdraws As UVM Commencement Speaker

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Charles2/04/2009 1:55:25 pm PST

re: #544 grenma

Charles:

I’m flattered that you took the time to answer, but the level of vituperation that you seem to reserve here for Intelligent Design just stumps me. The normal conversational tone morphs into paranoid language about deceptive evildoers trying to set back Western Culture 500 years. The black hat/white hat dichotomy you paint here is so removed from reality, not to mention the irony inherent in painting the fairly reasonable and not all secretive “Wedge Document” your own personal Protocols. I have spoken to and seen Philip Johnson, Eugenie Scott and many others in this debate and can honestly say you are either a very poor judge of character or just “blinded by science”. I also fully understand that from a materialist worldview ID must seem crazy, but the rush to judgment (and the burning desire for it to be so) on the “truth” of Evolution seems just as crazy on your side. And while you love to ridicule people for blaming everything from Hitler to teen pregnancy on Evolution, it cannot be argued that the sociological effects of a theory that strikes at the very core of Judeo-Christian morality have been vast and, to my mind at least, unwelcome.

Right. I’m vituperative, and you’re just telling it like it is when you call me “paranoid” and “blinded by science,” and compare me to Jew-haters promoting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

And you do this while ranting at everyone here about how “arrogant” they are. What a piece of work. Can’t say I’m surprised though — it’s a pretty common creationist attitude.