From: Sarah Berel-Harrop (sec@hal-pc.org)
Date: Thu Aug 21 2003 - 15:55:11 EDT
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:05:02 -0400
"Robert Schneider" <rjschn39@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>Jay's substitution of "so many" for "so often" does not
>make such a sweeping
>indictment any less palatable, and Howard's challenge for
>empirical evidence
>still stands.
Phillip Johnson has kindly fingered two -
Richard Dawkins
Will Provine
He is most thankful to them for "clarifying the issues".
I don't know about Provine, but Dawkins is surely one of
the people that Lewontin means when he talks about
"vulgarizers of science". This is a very helpful
and accurate description. Anyone who teaches or
preaches evolution in the manner Jay suggests is indeed
a vulgarizer of science. That is, he or she has
misrepresented science to the public in service of
their promotion of scientism. This cheapens -
vulgarizes - the work that other scientists do.
But I come back to Howard's question, how many of
these folks actually and truly exist, I suspect
that in actual practice and teaching far fewer
than the ID'ers and others make out.
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