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reposting David’s repost of Scott Alexander’s leaked neoreaction and race science emails (circumstances.run)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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hopefully this is alright with @[email protected], and I apologize for the clumsy format since we can’t pull posts directly until we’re federated (and even then lemmy doesn’t interact the best with masto posts), but absolutely everyone who hasn’t seen Scott’s emails yet (or like me somehow forgot how fucking bad they were) needs to, including yud playing interference so the rats don’t realize what Scott is

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

although I feel no particular urge to steelman young earth creationism, it is actually pretty useful to read some of their stuff. You never realize how LITTLE you know about evolution until you read some Behe and are like "I know that can’t be correct…but why not?

I would agree that Scott knew very little about evolution. I would in fact go further and suggest that he still knows very little about evolution.

(Incidentally, Behe isn't a young-Earth creationist. He's the kind who says that the Earth is old, but some things can't have evolved because shut up that's why.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Behe's one of the leading lights (dimmest bulbs?) of the so-called "Intelligent Design" movement: a molecular biologist who knows just enough molecular biology to construct strawmen arguments about evolution. Siskind being impressed by him tells me everything I need to know about Siskind's susceptibility to truly stupid ideas.