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03-27-2010, 09:40 AM
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 I POOP ON U Poster Rank:126 Female Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 12,645
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The Wedge Document - Intelligent Design Exposed
The document was meant only for members of the DI but was leaked not long after. The Wedge describes the short and long-term goals of intelligent design advocates, not just in displacing evolution from the science curriculum in US public schools, but with the broader cultural, social, and political aim to 'reverse the stifling dominance of the materialist worldview, and to replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions.' |
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03-27-2010, 10:28 AM
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 *DR's nice guy* Poster Rank:77 Male Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 19,438 Mentioned: 89 Post(s) Quoted: 7144 Post(s)
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Re: The Wedge Document - Intelligent Design Exposed
It definitely is a concern... People in general are easily swayed into silly beliefs if enough people they know have the same views... I've done a bit of reading myself and it seems that in America only around 15% (different sources give different figures but they are all around the same mark) people believe in evolution without God... Around 40% believe evolution is the method through which God creates life, and 45% of Americans reject evolution altogether in favour of creationism. It is quite amazing that nearly half of the people in the most powerful nation in the world completely reject evolution. I guess no-matter what we learn as a species it achieves little if people are unwilling to listen. The discussions i've attempted to have on here the past few days demonstrate how hard it is to get through to a brainwashed mind.
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03-27-2010, 11:53 AM
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Re: The Wedge Document - Intelligent Design Exposed
It is just crazy that there is an organisation with an actual document detailing their plan to "overthrow" (their words!) modern science and replace it with a version in keeping with their particular Christian beliefs. And that this plan isn't even limited to science, but extends to all culture, even fine art.  Creepy as fucking fuck. I remember around 5 years ago, they were actually beginning to put the wedge strategy into action, getting "warning" stickers put on biology textbooks and pushing their creationist - I mean intelligent design book "Of Pandas and People" into school curriculums. This culminated in the infamous Dover trial, which they lost.  Perhaps there is a god after all.  |
