Thanks, gentlemen, for the above kind words.
Yes, theology is the queen of sciences. I usually write "Modern Science" without distinction as a way to satirize what most modern people consider science to be. I think I got that trick from Chesterton. I probably overdo all that quirky capitalizing business and this time forgetting to be idiosyncratic in that way led me into a drawing a false distinction.
I would never have jumped into a thread about Intelligent Design versus Evolution per se. This started out as a thread about a movie that apparently is a defense of I.D. Then something ambiguous about "Trads" and what one might expect their reactions and sympathies and enthusiasms to be in this area appeared.
At first I thought that what was meant might be along the lines of: "It is puzzling that Traditional Catholics should be so happy and excited about a pro-I.D. movie, since that sort of thing is associated with Protestant Fundamentalists, and Catholics in the 1950s who were far from being Modernists nonetheless lived quite comfortably with Evolution Theory, unlike those Protestant Fundamentalists."
That's why I went through my litany of standard 1950s American Catholic theological abominations. To challenge the notion, if that was in fact the notion someone had, that the many ways in which some worldly-wise Catholics sold the farm to the infidels well before Vatican II constituted a "tradition" the bucking of which by "Trads" might well be considered "puzzling."
Now it seems that something more subtle than that was intended. Something along the lines of: "It's puzzling that Traditional Catholics should be interested in Intelligent Design theory at all, since they're such hopeless Fundamentalists that one would not expect them to know anything about the study of origins but their own literal reading of Genesis."
In the past I have made fun of "thread beadles" whose ideas about keeping to the original thrust of a thread on a message board are arbitrary and sometimes self-serving. I would not, for example, be so quick to say here that "the merits of evolution was a side track." It's not as though someone started comparing and contrasting THE HONEYMOONERS with THE FLINTSTONES. Certainly, discussing the merits of Evolution with or without that mysterious "filter" is within the bounds of the topic of this thread. If that gets too complex for all but two people, so be it. Survival of the fittest and all...
But for me THE topic of this thread is now the "Trad" mind and its supposed limitations and the "Trad" relationship to Modern Science and Modern Academe. There was no question of a lofty and sophisticated "discussion" about molecular structures and that sort of thing when that comment about Trads, which turned out to be a subtle put-down, was passed.
The real meat and potatoes of Evolutionary Science as taught in the Modern Classroom are demented dogmas such as these:
Marital fidelity is an unnatural vice.
Constant warfare is part of Man's Evolutionary heritage.
The only hope for humankind is that certain male monkeys display themselves in attitudes of receptivity to ravishment when threatened and maybe in a billion or two years humans will learn to do the same, thus leading to Peace on Earth.
Evolutionists have a bad habit of waxing all pious and righteous and indignant about the sanctity of their supposedly unbiased petrie dishes and specific sets of expectations when in fact they are about as cautious as the demon-ridden swine of Gerasa in how they go about arriving at their theories and their certitude about their theories.
I suppose that given billions and billions of years I could get an Evolutionist apologist to admit that pictures in Fundamentalist tracts of Sumerians riding domesticated dinosaurs are really no more ridiculous than the above standard Evolutionist dicta.
It's easy to grumble when called on one's patronizing or dismissive attitude towards supposed Fundamentalists that yes, those who espouse Evolutionist Science and teach it in the classroom are not above having weird and unscientific flights of fancy of their own.
It's not so easy when one has been brainwashed otherwise by the World Spirit to take an honest and appalled look at the extent to which Evolution AS ACTUALLY TAUGHT IN THE CLASSROOM is a matter of demented dogma, and not of science of any kind.
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