Talk:Evolutionists are intellectual snobs
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John Derbyshire’s article has to be one of the most saddest & pathetic pieces of writing I have ever come across. I do not have time to point out all of his twisted errors, (There seems to be an actual hierarchy of them, from phrases to sentences to paragraphs) but (taking one of the larger one’s) he claims to have difficulty understanding what all the fuss is about in the evolution versa creationism debate. Quote:
“I’d be surprised to learn that anyone outside the circles of professional biologists and the small cadres of fanatical anti-evolutionists has any more interest in the matter than I have.�?
Has he been in a coma or something over the last couple of years? Isn’t he aware of the assault on the educational systems across the world (Ex, America, Turkey, GB, Australia) by creationists trying to deliberately undermine the teaching of modern scientific disciplines, such as the Theory of Evolution, which he weirdly claims to support but would not let his children learn!
Finally, I am disgusted by his snide comments which label (or more correctly libel) anyone with the audacity to stand up & resist the assault on our educational systems as unpatriotic. Just who does he think he is, some unelected little fascist dictator of the true patriot department or something? I have followed these issues for some time now and I have noticed the tendency of extreme right wing religious nuts to label their opponents as unpatriotic. It is just so sad that he is reduced to their level. Only the most thoroughly dishonest & immoral lowlife, smear their opponents like this.
Alan.
Thank you for fixing the link to CreationWiki from the talk page to the actual article. 69.40.88.148 20:18, 5 Jan 2006 (GMT)
Tu quoque
- "The accusation is hypocritical for creationists as just as intellectual snobbish themselves as the 'evolutionists' are in some cases."
I removed this response. It may be true, but it's not a response to the claim but an instance of the Tu quoque fallacy. --tk (t) 09:19, 27 Jan 2006 (GMT)
Categorisation
Does this really fit in the philosophy section? It would perhaps fit in better with a reorganised "misc anti-evolution claims" -- alongside "evolutionists want to have creationism jailed". I'm currently writing an extended essay response to this claim. Joe (t) 17:07, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
- Actually, I can't decide. It also goes alonside "Teach the controversy", etc. I don't suppose there's any reason not to have some of these in more than one category. I'll write the essay as a response to "Evolutionists are arrogant", and these could then be subclaims... Joe (t) 17:14, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
