Gore: creationism OK

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Gordon to Rakesh:
>> It is not authoritarian to require that educated people  have both
>> understood the nature of the evidence for the claim that all life has
>> evolved from a few or one simple life form  and grasped the theory of
>> natural selection.
>
>It is authoritarian to require.

If this is the reason for your claim that "science _is_ becoming a kind of
religion," you might as well argue against education tout court.

Gordon wrote:
>Perhaps, as the fundies
>say, science _is_ becoming a kind of religion, along with
>liberalism and capitalism, held to be self-evidently (that
>is, mystically) true.

As a matter of fact, it is fundamentalists -- not Rakesh -- who worship the
aura of science.  Otherwise, why do they wrap up their religion in the
mantle of science?  While contesting the scientific methods when they
disagree with their religion, they still covet the aura of scientism.
That's pathetic.

Yoshie