>>> "Carl Remick" sends us an article which says in part
"What could be more American, more democratic, more egalitarian, than every individual making up her or his own mind regard less of what the soûcalled experts say? If religious convictions are now little more than expressions of consumer preference, why not treat scientific beliefs the same way?"
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CB: Trouble is they are not making up their own minds. The U.S. Big Brother mind control system is as powerful or more so than the methods of old. And all the more powerful because people THINK they are making up their own minds when their opinions on science are formed exactly as their consumer preferences are: based on television and other mass media shows and commercials (which unabashedly use deception and pavlovian association of products with unrelated positive feedback images) and a theory of the world they learn in church or from some Reaganite opinion maker or peer group.
People who believe in creationism didn't arrive at that belief on their own through some individual , independent process. They get it from church, the original mind controllers. Evolution screws up the whole Judeo-Christian story. The average person has no dependence in real life on the use of biological evolution. It doesn't matter to them what the truth is about the origin of species. How often does a new species originate in your day to day life ? Why should they sacrifice their religious beliefs, which do function for them pragmatically, for a "true" belief on abstract biological theory ?
In other words, the average person is not concerned with the scientific truth of a scientific theory, rather they are concerned with its narrow social and political implications in their own lives. The rightwing has succeeded in making evolutionism socially and politically uncomfortable for a lot of people again. That is not "more " democratic" or "egalitarian". It is subjection, a la Judith Butler.
CB