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husqvarna
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« Reply #45 on: January 21, 2008, 01:47:44 PM »

You can see the skeptical philosophy in the way that ID'ists approach evolution/design--someone is going to pick up on the fact that the only thing they really contributed to the discourse is the way you can use skeptical methods against or parallel to the scientific method.  What I am trying to say is, the Intelligent Design crowd did a really lousy job in attacking the scientific community on the grounds of creationism (Stupid fools) but there is some merit in the methodology if you think of it as addressing 'positivism' and the overwhelming ideology of the scientific method in the late 19th-mid-20th century. 

I think the fact that the ID bit was taken up into the public arena by evangelical soccer moms and the like was what ruined its work... the rhetoric was somewhat half-baked.

As I pointed out in the thread earlier, however, there is and will be a lot of good work in theology countering this neopositivist resurgence- really in much the same way that ID seeks to, but with much more sophistication.  I think it will take some time until anyone other than the Continental philosophers in the "turn to religion" or "political theology" vein pay much attention to this work, however.  Even these folks aren't all that interactive with the theological trends- they tend more to travel on parallel tracks and make some similar moves on their own.

But conservative religiosity is on the rise, and I think this will have a big impact in the near future.
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I am not surprised that you are confused ... [t]hat confusion may well be chronic if not congenital.
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« Reply #46 on: January 22, 2008, 05:18:52 AM »

financial collapse
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« Reply #47 on: January 22, 2008, 06:13:13 AM »

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Naaa. By 2012 we should be about 18 months into the next big upturn. It'll all be stuff about The Coming Boom ;-)
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« Reply #48 on: January 22, 2008, 09:19:57 AM »

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Naaa. By 2012 we should be about 18 months into the next big upturn. It'll all be stuff about The Coming Boom ;-)

Naa. In 2012 the first books will come out on the depression of 2008-2010.

Oh, I was thinking academic books.
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