spendie
Did you have French ancestors of the powdered wig sort? You do seem very keen on maintaining a social order for the sake of maintaining a social order. Even minus the guillotine, that's a favored notion of the wigged set.
The lady said:
Quote:"Humans are fundamentally not exceptional because we came from the same evolutionary source as every other species," she read from one during an interview.
"That offends me," she said. "That has no business being in a science textbook. That's religion."
First, of course it isn't religion at all, she's just making the rhetorically and psychologically necessary move of claiming X equals Y - both are theories or both are faith.
But to your protest...I've accurately described the 'logic' of her argument - that because she is a believer, she therefore possesses some right or priviledge to bar speech or ideas which 'offend' her belief.
It doesn't help her argument at all if you wish to restrict the sphere of applicability to religious belief and there's no apparent logical reason for such a restriction. But as a practical matter, such a restriction wouldn't hold. For a clear example, she herself has just described science as a belief of a similar or identical sort to her biblical faith.
But more importantly, religious notions deserve no special status. The church has a rich history of claiming precisely such a special status but the claim is precisely of the "I am the boss because I say I am the boss" variety. Fukk em.
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