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ScottL wrote:
Ben McIlwain wrote:
It would also be nice to get some Ptolemaist
scholars to review our
entries on gravitation and the solar system systematically; I suspect
there's a lot of Galilean POV creep.
Seriously though, legitimate POV disputes are one thing ... but when one
side has all of the science behind it and the other side has nothing
behind it, giving equal weight is fallacious. Our articles on the shape
of the Earth, global warming, what caused 9/11, and HIV causing AIDS are
similarly reality-based.
I suspect his suggestion was review of what we say about them. A
group so unpopular that they are characterized as they have been on this
thread probably has some legitimate concerns about being misrepresented.
That's the problem with the whole "intelligent design" movement though:
the entire point of their existence is misrepresentation. "Intelligent
design" exists because "scientific creationism" was ruled
unconstitutional in the late 1980's (as a public school subject,
anyway). ID's mantra is basically, "We're not creationism, we're
scientific" ... even though it's the same people, the same flawed
arguments, and indeed, the same creationism. Obviously this simple
truth must be in the article, but if you let the ID'ers go over the
article and correct anything they feel is a "misrepresentation", you're
basically enabling their agenda.
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Ben McIlwain ("Cyde Weys")
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