"...a book that will find approving readers only amongst hard-core ID enthusiasts hungry for agreement but indifferent to the quality of evidence offered in support of their position."
If that doesn't describe Denyse and the ID crowd, I don't know what would.
Yeah, that was pretty good, but I wish he'd left out the ritual flaying of people in the humanities -- "literary theory, cultural studies, cultural anthropology, women’s studies, ethnic studies, and a long-standing Marxisant approach to sociology." Not all of us are dumb enough to be taken in by stuff like the Sokol hoax, y'know.
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From the Levitt article:
"...a book that will find approving readers only amongst hard-core ID enthusiasts hungry for agreement but indifferent to the quality of evidence offered in support of their position."
If that doesn't describe Denyse and the ID crowd, I don't know what would.
Man, these types are out-doing the worst of the post-modern, lefty deconstructionists. At least those types didn't venture into the hard sciences.
Yeah, that was pretty good, but I wish he'd left out the ritual flaying of people in the humanities -- "literary theory, cultural studies, cultural anthropology, women’s studies, ethnic studies, and a long-standing Marxisant approach to sociology." Not all of us are dumb enough to be taken in by stuff like the Sokol hoax, y'know.
..uh, that would be "Sokal" hoax.
Denyses = I guess if he just keeps moving - it's hard to hit a moving target.
And she is like shooting fish in a barrel.
How can someone so demonstrably stupid be so smug?
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