Akateeminen Vapaus = Kreationismi ?

Discovery Instituten rakas neurokirurgi Michael "egnorance" Egnor on purkanut tunteitaan Evolution News & Views-sivulla. Egnor on kovin huolissaan akateemisesta vapaudesta. Hän on samalla keksinyt uuden aseen jumalattomia evolutionisteja vastaan. Tuhmat darwinistit ovat julistaneet boikotoivansa Louisianan osavaltiota yhden kokouksen kohdalla:

We will not hold the Society’s 2011 annual meeting in New Orleans…the Executive Committee voted to hold the 2011 meeting in Salt Lake City in large part because of legislation SB 561, which you signed into law in June 2008…SICB wrote to the Louisiana legislators opposing SB 561. After the bill passed both the House and the Senate, we joined the American Institute of Biological Sciences (ABIS) and other national scientific organizations in urging you to veto this legislation…[t]he SICB leadership could not support New Orleans as our meeting venue because of the official position of the state in weakening science education and specifically attacking evolution in science curricula. SICB is joining other scientific organizations in suggesting professional societies reconsider any plans to host meetings in Louisiana. As scientists, it is our responsibility to oppose anti-science initiatives. We urge you to take actions to repeal SB 561 in the upcoming legislative session.

Egnor kirjoitti vastaiskuksi oman kirjeen. Siinä hän pääsee toistamaan sanoja, joihin IDeistit haluavat assosioitua: akateeminen vapaus, avoin keskustelu, tieteen etiikka, sensuurin vastustaminen, jne. Hän pohtii miksi ihmeessä tieteellinen järjestö ei tykkää noista asioista. Miksi he paheksuvia ihmisiä, jotka kunnioittavat noita asioita? Sitten koittaa Egnorin neronleimaus:

Most Americans are creationists, in the sense that they believe that God played an important role in creating human beings and they don’t accept a strictly Darwinian explanation for life. And they think that they ought to be able to ask questions about evolution in their own public schools. They don’t share your passion for ideological purity in science classes. They have a quaint notion that science depends on the freedom to ask questions, and their insistence on academic freedom is catching on. They don't want religion taught in the science classroom, but they know that students are not learning about all of the science surrounding evolution. Seventy-eight percent of Americans support academic freedom in the teaching of evolution in schools, and that number is rising fast — it’s up 9% in the past 3 years. People clearly resent your demand for censorship. After all, it’s their children in their schools, and they aren’t happy with a bunch of supercilious Darwinists telling them that they can’t even question Darwinism in their own classrooms. So if you’re going to boycott all the creationists who despise you, you’ll eventually have to hold all of your conventions in Madison or Ann Arbor. Keep up the arrogance and eventually you won’t have to boycott people at all. People will boycott you.

Folks in Louisiana don’t actually care if the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology cancels its convention in New Orleans. There are a lot of other organizations that will be delighted to hold their conventions in cities you boycott. There are a lot of big organizations out there who don’t exactly like you. The National Association of Evangelicals represents 40,000,000 people and represents 40,000 churches. The Society for Comparative and Integrative Biology has 2300 members. Just one organization of evangelicals has 17 times as many churches as you have members. There are thousands of churches that are larger than your organization, and I’m sure many members would be happy to come to New Orleans for tourism or meetings.

Ja lisää kreationismista:

Worst of all, "boycott" is a very bad meme for Darwinists to be spreading. Where do you think the money that you’re denying the citizens of New Orleans came from? Your grants, mostly, which come from… creationists. You guys are utterly dependent on taxpayers, most of whom are creationists of one stripe or another, and most of whom rank Darwinists on an ethical scale somewhere below Caribbean hedge fund operators. They think you’re a bunch of atheist brownshirts — can’t imagine why. These ordinary citizens might notice that you boycotted them while suckling at the public teat — their teat. The ordinary taxpaying God-fearing Americans you tried to slap down in Louisiana are paying your way, and they’ve always paid your way, while you sneered at them, ridiculed their faith, and used a judicial cudgel to indoctrinate their children in their schools. And now you think that you can blackmail them by…refusing to visit their state?

Ja lisää:

Your grants to study evolution don’t really come from NIH or NSF. They come from creationists, the ones you take to court and censor all the time.

Ja niin edelleen.

Egnor tekee selväksi kenen puolella Discovery Institute on. Kreationistien. Tieteellinen ID-tutkimus ei merkitse näissä asioissa tippaakaan. Darwinistien pitäisi vain olla hiljaa jos haluavat elää kreationistien antamilla verorahoilla. Toki Egnor mainitsi, että USA on tieteellisen tutkimuksen kärkimaa JA antievoluution suurin länsimainen kannattaja.

The most "evolution-denying" country in the Western world — the United States — is the world’s undisputed scientific leader.

Egnor ei kuitenkaan pohdi tekevätkö sitä tiedettä antievolutionistit vai hillitymmät uskovaiset. Tiedemiehistä kun enemmistö hyväksyy evoluutioteorian.