Too Much Credit
I hear lines like, “It flies in the the face of natural selection (any hereditary gene for homosexuality would have selected itself out many generations ago). Therefore I ask again, where is the SCIENCE that supports homosexuality?”
Siiiigh.
Maybe I should start a little series of lessons to let these ignorant-yet-bellicose folks in on science's dirty little secrets?
Til then, don't give them too much credit, folks. Don't assume that they've taken basic science plowshares and perverted them into swords of christian kindness. No, they don't even know where to find the plowshares in the first place.
It gets worse, though. They won't actually go look up what 'natural selection' might be, in fact, instead pushing the legwork onto those of us under the onslaught of this kind of stupidity. Ironically, they know there are those who old fact and scientific truth on a bit of a pedestal, so they exploit our care and rigor to keep us busy while they just continue to blather utter nonsense.
Last time I checked, one typically challenged what they knew to be incorrect, not what they didn't bother to understand in the first place.
I guess they figure, if it works for secular conservatives, why not us?
Wait...did I just say “secular conservatives”? Are there any left?
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I think they all pretty much expired within a generation or two after signing the Declaration of Independence.
Posted by: palochi | September 5, 2005 01:46 AM
Did someone say secular conservatives? *sticks head up expecting a trap, or to get whacked like a whackamole* Maybe. Do you mean like little-L libertarians or Goldwater republicans? I think we're extinct east of the Rockies, but there are still a few pockets out here in the west.
Posted by: Chuck | September 5, 2005 06:52 AM