Trump closed-mindedly dismisses Lemon as a source of relevant questions and views, and arrogantly claims to be the least racist person in the world. The quote above simultaneously exhibits both. On this occasion, my goal is to explore the relationship between closed-mindedness and arrogance. My project here is not to diagnose Trump, nor is it to argue that he is a racist, though I think both of those projects are worthwhile. Lynch (eds.) Polarisation, Arrogance, and Dogmatism: Philosophical Perspectives (Routledge) Let's begin with a quote from the President of the United States: "CNN's Don Lemon, the dumbest man on television, insinuated last night while asking a debate "question" that I was a racist, when in fact I am "the least racist person in the world."" This appeared on Donald Trump's twitter account on July 31, 2019, the morning after a televised debate in which Don Lemon, one of the few black anchors on CNN, asked the Democratic presidential candidates to address Trump's bigotry and growing racial divisions in the U.S.
That essence is advocacy of miraculous divine intervention, i.e., special creation, in the history of life, and the claim that science must acknowledge special creation or dire consequences for society will follow.įorthcoming in Alessandra Tanesini and Michael P. In summary, while creationism has evolved diverse labels and strategies for legal and rhetorical purposes, its fundamental essence remains unchanged. The major creationist movements and slogans are identified and also placed into this historical picture. Here, I place the standard histories of " creation science " by Numbers and Larson (covering primarily the early 1900s to the 1980s) into this larger context (going back to the evangelical split over slavery before the Civil War and during), and then show how the " intelligent design " movement (from the 1980s until the present) fits squarely within the long history of primarily evangelical, biblicist opposition to evolution.
One important piece of this preparation involves understanding the historical origins of creationism within the wider history of western Christianity, especially evangelical Protestantism and its development in the United States. Preparation for this hazard should be a standard part of the background of professional evolutionists. Every discipline has its hazards, and for evolution scientists and educators, a major hazard consists of encounters with creationists, their rhetoric, and their attempts to insert antievolutionism into public education.
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