{"id":185,"date":"2008-11-28T08:12:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T16:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=185"},"modified":"2008-12-05T17:23:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T01:23:52","slug":"yes-i-am-a-fundamentalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/yes-i-am-a-fundamentalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, I am a fundamentalist…."},"content":{"rendered":"

…about certain things. \u00a0Someone named Floyd quotes<\/a> my post<\/a> where I explain why I won’t talk much about Creationism and observes:<\/p>\n

That sounds pretty fundamentalist to me.<\/strong> Jerry Falwell couldn\u2019t have said it any better. There will be no debate. I AM right. Hey! A secular \u201cI AM\u201d statement! Just like Jesus \u2014 the cause of most human suffering and in no way responsible for the greatness of the West.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To be frank, this is the one of the reasons that I am in favor of a website like this.<\/strong> Even on Culture11<\/a>, where only a minority of readers are likely religious right participants, it was clear that I couldn’t take evolutionary theory as a prior in making arguments in my diaries because many will start rambling about how it is “only a theory” which has been “disproved by modern science.” This is made up stuff from bizarro-world. Unless people want to go back to living in thatched huts they need to be very stingy with the psychological luxury good that is skepticism of the findings of established science. Science does not tell you how you should live in this world, it does not tell us what is important, what is good, what is right, or, importantly, what non-scientific inferences we should make from it. It gives us the basic parameters which frame our position in the universe. Others can expend their marginal time arguing with people about the basic premises of existence in the universe, it’s not my cup of tea….<\/p>\n

(Data below the fold on who does, and does not, reject evolution)<\/p>\n

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…about certain things. \u00a0Someone named Floyd quotes my post where I explain why I won’t talk much about Creationism and observes: That sounds pretty fundamentalist to me. Jerry Falwell couldn\u2019t have said it any better. There will be no debate. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[48,54,1132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}