[WikiEN-l] Creationism is not horse-shit, it's pseudo-science

Jtkiefer jtkiefer at wordzen.net
Fri Jul 1 01:56:31 UTC 2005


Erik Moeller wrote:

> Jtkiefer:
>
>>    Creationism is a prickly problem, wikipedia can't really take 
>> either side due to the fact that no matter what you write on it it's 
>> almost impossible to avoid POV pushing.
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> Stating that creationism is pseudoscience is not POV-pushing. Maybe 
> Intelligent Design, which is a bit more controversial -- but 
> creationism as in "God created the World", where it makes "scientific" 
> claims, is pretty much universally regarded as pseudoscience by people 
> from existing scientific disciplines.
>
> Erik
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Your right calling creationism a science would be POV pushing, but if 
you take the stance that creationism is anything, science, 
pseudo-science, legend, myth, total bullshit... you're still gonna piss 
someone off which is an inherent problem with having an open medium like 
wikipedia.

-Jtkiefer



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