Northern Valley Beacon
Information, observations, and analysis from the James River valley on the Northern Plains----- E-Mail: Enter 'Beacon' in subject box. Send to: Minnekota@Referencedesk.orgWednesday, September 14, 2005
Oh, that old Orwellian twist
Most of the coverage of the newest quarrel about evolution is allowing evolution's enemies to frame the debate as a contest between scientific theories, rather than what it is — a religious challenge to an overwhelming scientific consensus.
The Columbia Journalism Review explores the art, however crude, of intruding extraneous and irrelevant notions into scientific discourse and treating those notions as if they have scientific merit, although they do not have the exhaustive testing behind them that scientific hypotheses do. We do, after all, live in the neo-Dark Ages. This article explains the technique of darkening.
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