Monday, August 09, 2021
Zoology
The ID folks are pointing to a 2012 book by Thomas Nagel, busting out of the Darwin bubble.
Nagel put a “sell by” date on the Darwinist idea of mind: I would be willing to bet that the present right-thinking consensus will come to seem laughable in a generation or two — though of course it may be replaced by a new consensus that is just as invalid. The human will to believe is inexhaustible. As a colleague points out, Nagel’s departure from the “right-thinking consensus” is on a par with Yale computer scientist David Gelernter’s 2019 farewell to Darwinism: both are major thinkers who showed that rejecting that orthodoxy can be done. Their courage also persuades me it will be done, by others of equal stature, giving intellectual permission to others in turn, until the tipping point that Nagel forecasts comes to pass. Of course, his sober warning about the next “consensus” must also be heeded.I'm not so confident about the influence of influencers. In the "virus" holocaust we've seen the same dozen serious biologists pointing out the fraud during the entire 17 fucking months. Ioannidis was first. He's still employed. The others, as I've noted, are mainly from India. They haven't been imprisoned or fired. BUT nobody else has joined them. The number of CREDENTIALED truth tellers has not changed in either direction. Nagel's pessimism about the next consensus is more realistic. Tenure and grants guarantee that Big Science will never get close to truth. Will to believe isn't the limitation. The competitive drive for STATUS is the limitation. Big Science is a ferociously competitive team sport. Grants are the scores, STATUS is the goal. Deepstate allows a few dissenters to survive, in order to create an impression of "freedom" and "democracy". Deepstate encysts those exceptions in a toxic cage that warns other potential dissenters to avoid their fate. It's a zoo of heretics.
Labels: endless hell, Grand Blueprint
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