So much defense against the "creationist" and "anti-evolutionist" armies, and yet the anti-evolutionary work of the laboratories goes on at lightning speed, well-funded and hidden from public view. One of the most common weapons of the real enemy is the creation of false battles, in which both sides could be allies, as in the feminist/anti-feminist conflicts of the American 70's, or the abortion/stem cell conflicts of this period - would be allies if they weren't tearing each other apart.
You can see the same dynamic in play in the controversy over the Pacers/Pistons brawl. It's the fans versus the players - a two-sided contest just like the sport itself. The owners, the real money going always to them, are as invisible as if they were behind the one-way glass in their skyboxes.
The conflict has the ability to give legitimacy to one of its sides, that's one advantage. So that two bogus versions of the same lie, when in battle with one another, guarantee one of them will be strengthened by it. It also absorbs attention, like in the brawl the other night, commentators kept mentioning fans' resentment over players' salaries. Because no one knows how much the owners get.
How can people ridicule anti-Darwinian superstition, and yet ignore the inhuman "research" that's being done, as if it's peripheral or its outcome unimportant? It's the same guys behind it, and it benefits the same invisible class of people - just like the team owners, they're invisible. But that's where the real money goes, always.
You can see the same dynamic in play in the controversy over the Pacers/Pistons brawl. It's the fans versus the players - a two-sided contest just like the sport itself. The owners, the real money going always to them, are as invisible as if they were behind the one-way glass in their skyboxes.
The conflict has the ability to give legitimacy to one of its sides, that's one advantage. So that two bogus versions of the same lie, when in battle with one another, guarantee one of them will be strengthened by it. It also absorbs attention, like in the brawl the other night, commentators kept mentioning fans' resentment over players' salaries. Because no one knows how much the owners get.
How can people ridicule anti-Darwinian superstition, and yet ignore the inhuman "research" that's being done, as if it's peripheral or its outcome unimportant? It's the same guys behind it, and it benefits the same invisible class of people - just like the team owners, they're invisible. But that's where the real money goes, always.
