Yes, one irony for me comes from something decades ago at a family gathering, where I wound up assigned to help a Christian home-schooled relative with his homework. The particular book being used was a seemingly normal science textbook, studying the eye, with diagrams and terms. When I injected observations about the differences betwe…
Yes, one irony for me comes from something decades ago at a family gathering, where I wound up assigned to help a Christian home-schooled relative with his homework. The particular book being used was a seemingly normal science textbook, studying the eye, with diagrams and terms. When I injected observations about the differences between the eyes of prey like deer, and those of predators like cats or primates like ourselves - he solemnly corrected me to inform me that humans are not animals. Apparently, the similarities between our species and other primates are just coincidental. (Scanning the textbook after that, it had some strange anomalies, like avoiding any concept of species per se, but that's another topic).
Now it's neo-progressives who are in effect sometimes asserting that humans are not like animals, and our *biological sex* (not just social gender roles) is not determined by genes or phenotype, but by self identification. And then smugly saying "follow the science" as if they had a lock on science, which always follows their ideology or can be dismissed.
Yeah, I have to continually work on being more generous in my framing, and I do. Scorn does not persuade anybody, it more pushes them into defending their corner. I do not want to follow their example. But I just need to let my hair down in a space like this sometimes.
Yes, one irony for me comes from something decades ago at a family gathering, where I wound up assigned to help a Christian home-schooled relative with his homework. The particular book being used was a seemingly normal science textbook, studying the eye, with diagrams and terms. When I injected observations about the differences between the eyes of prey like deer, and those of predators like cats or primates like ourselves - he solemnly corrected me to inform me that humans are not animals. Apparently, the similarities between our species and other primates are just coincidental. (Scanning the textbook after that, it had some strange anomalies, like avoiding any concept of species per se, but that's another topic).
Now it's neo-progressives who are in effect sometimes asserting that humans are not like animals, and our *biological sex* (not just social gender roles) is not determined by genes or phenotype, but by self identification. And then smugly saying "follow the science" as if they had a lock on science, which always follows their ideology or can be dismissed.
Yeah, I have to continually work on being more generous in my framing, and I do. Scorn does not persuade anybody, it more pushes them into defending their corner. I do not want to follow their example. But I just need to let my hair down in a space like this sometimes.
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