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i suppose it's a matter of what context you're in exactly. if you're in a place where the folk who believe that stuff are a significant political power, then it's a socio-political matter. if you're not, it can be kinda quaint that people think that way i suppose. so i dont see this as a question that's interesting enough to warrant much debate at the conceptual level---but in particular situations, things can get quite complicated sometimes quite fast around creationism or id or whatever it will be repackaged as in the future. the problem is that it's hard to imagine winning arguments with these people because their entire position comes from an assertion of control over premises/axioms---so just as it's unlikely that you are going to argue a pentacostalist out of thinking that there is a holy spirit and that speaking in tongues is normal and that we are all hurtling toward armageddeon, so it's unlikely that you're going to be able to argue a creationist-type out of thinking as they do because for each of these folk the question is how did god create the world and how many days did it take and not how do the various notions of evolution square with physical evidence. you aren't in the same conversation with these folk. they're talking about something else, a different language game.
that's what makes them a problem when they get political power.
seems to me the conflict then really is not so much about creationism/id/whatever, but in keeping these folk away from political power.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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