{"id":5157,"date":"2010-10-24T11:26:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T15:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=5157"},"modified":"2025-07-04T05:56:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T12:56:58","slug":"the-religious-right-takes-a-hard-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/the-religious-right-takes-a-hard-left\/","title":{"rendered":"A Commentary: The Religious Right Takes a Hard Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Robert Huff
\nAmerican Thinker (out of house news source)<\/strong><\/p>\n

We live in an age of scientific hegemony (if I may borrow a term from the Marxists and feminists), where access to intellectual power and influence is granted to those who demonstrate their loyalty to the approved theories of the ruling elite. Scientists who refuse to bow at the altar of uniformity are labeled heretics and cast out of the intelligentsia, condemned to lives of unfunded grant proposals, tenure denials, and ruined reputations.<\/p>\n

The scientific theories to which we must pledge allegiance are not threats in and of themselves. For example, global warming, which used to be known as global cooling and is now called global climate disruption, attempts to explain changes in the weather by assuming that global temperature increases (or decreases) are primarily caused by human activity. Of course, it requires more than a little faith to take short-term measurements and extrapolate to an apocalyptic assumption about the ultimate fate of the earth. Hence, it should not at all be surprising that many successful challenges to man-made global __________ (fill in the blank) have been made over the years. What is surprising, even distressing, is the systematic effort by the scientific community to denigrate the talented men and women who have exposed serious flaws in this theory. Ironically, the end result is that our secular institutions of science often expel those committed to objective inquiry while rewarding those committed to upholding dogma.<\/p>\n

As a mathematician and a conservative at a small, Christian liberal arts university, I have a keen interest in the extent to which the hegemony of secular science has worked its way into evangelical academia. When it comes to man-made global warming, most Christian universities are too small to support a faculty of climate researchers.
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