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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
That's what I'm saying. I don't have a problem with giving up on them coming around, but at that point how can you bash them for it? Just ignore and move on.
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If they didn't keep poking their nose in it'd be easy to ignore them. It's hard to ignore them though when they start lawsuits and try to have laws changed.
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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
You'll have to explain why political power has anything to do with the argument though. I'm missing the connection. Why is it politically important for these folks to be enlightened?
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Because they wield enough political power that it impacts everyone, not just themselves. If someone wants to sit in their house and say the sky is red, knock yourself out. But if a group wields enough political power to change the education system to teach the sky is blue OR red, to set scientific policy so that research into the sky is dissuaded because dogma makes research into other possible colours of the sky immoral, that impacts everyone.
Ignorant students make ignorant citizens. Less scientists, falling behind in technology.. technology is necessary to the survival and thriving of society now, without it we can't feed everyone, we can't help people that are sick. Scientific literacy is very important, anything that undermines that has to be looked at carefully.