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Ignorance: Inspired and Promoted by Mainstream Media
| January 29, 2008 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
A family friend, who is a brilliant electrical engineer, recently spent some time at our home for a holiday get-together. The topic of ID came up and he asked me how I could possibly have bought into such a silly idea. I quizzed him about what he knew about ID. I asked him about which prominent ID theorists he was familiar with, and mentioned a few, along with the titles of their books. He had never heard of any of them, and was completely unfamiliar with any ID literature or even elementary ID concepts.
As it turned out, he had gotten all of his information about ID from the mainstream media, and didn’t have the slightest clue what ID is all about.
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#29 Gil
This is why I am so passionate about ID. The conclusion of design or no design, when it comes to the universe and our existence, is not just an academic philosophical exercise, it impacts on a day-to-day basis how we lead our lives.
The same did hold for me; so I would argue that, for many people, ID evidence acted as the key that opened a very tigth intellectual cage.
The media is incredible dishonest. The reason for this is i think that they pander to so many groups and so diverse an audience that they end up sacrificing truth and value for ratings and the least possible criticism. The media is not at all about finding and reporting the truth. Newspapers ought to carry a waring like supplements do which reads “this product does not intend to seek, report or aim at providing the truth.”
All this is coupled with the minds of the perverted people in power and who desire to influence the order of society in various ways for vcarious reason (mostly political and economic) results in a bizarre and corrupt enterprise.
Thus, I very rarely watch the news and I almost never miss anyhting useful or important.
GilDodgen (#29): “However, at the behest of a friend whom I respected, I read Michael Denton’s Evolution: A Theory in Crisis. I realized at that point that I had been misled and isolated from rational and evidential challenges to my worldview — challenges presented by the very rational and evidential processes that I thought supported my philosophical nihilism.”
I also emerged from many years of indoctrinated unthinking nihilism. It would probably have been earlier if I had had a friend to guide me. There is an interesting parallel with my discovery that Vitamin C and other natural substances have a profound beneficial effect on health. For years I believed, to the great detriment of my health, in the orthodox medical establishment’s claim that this is all hokum. After all, big establishment medical science can’t be wrong, right?