Rick Santorum, Sarah Palin and the End of Modernist Epistemology

[tagonist]

Yesterday the Philadelphia Inquirer ran an opinion piece by former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum entitled “Challenging Scientific Dogma.” The content was exactly what you’d expect based on the title and Sen. Santorum’s exceptional record in congress- a combined indictment of both the “high priests of Darwinism” for their insistence that “free

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[glazomaniac]

baby steps equals failure. Suck it up, spinboys

i like to say compromise is just another way of saying "failure."

[anonymous]

I was trying to figure out where I had heard this exact story before (the end of modernity, the formation of identity tribes, etc) and I realized, oh right. I went to a christian college (Covenant College, Lookout Mtn, Georgia). They teach this there. They directly teach that students should be "critical" of mainstream scientific/social/political thought, guided of course by a christian "world and life view" and that they shouldn't accept the modernist paradigm. Or the post-modernist one either, although they're a little fuzzier on what that means