In a message dated 2/19/01 10:40:57 AM Mountain Standard Time, kbmill@ksu.edu
writes:
<< Interestingly, I just received another post about the situation in Turkey
from a completely different source.
Political action seem to be the name of the game. Both YECs and ID are
focussing on pshing their agendas in the political realm. They are
essentially making an end run around the scientific community and proper
channels of peer review and scientific evaluation.
Keith
>>
Hi Keith-
Your first sentence in the second paragraph (Political action...etc) probably
sums it up, though perhaps not in the way you intended. Turkey is a
constitutionally secular society but there is a vocal "fundamentalist" Moslem
movement to institute an Islamic state. I strongly suspect that those people
pushing anti-evolution views are less concerned about science or the "ethics"
of evolution and very concerned about achieving a political goal.
Anti-evolution talk is merely (mostly?) a means to rouse the population to a
political end.
Any analogies to the situation in the U.S.? ;-)
Karl
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