Grognor comments on Rationality Quotes June 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Grognor 17 June 2012 03:37:46AM *  4 points [-]

I wasn't one of the silent downvoters, but I went ahead and downvoted without being silent because your comment just misunderstands Larks's. He did not even implicitly claim that there is a creationism tradition in biology, but rather an ongoing, publicized debate between evolution and creationism, which is analogous to analytic vs. continental philosophy, if one is laughably wrong but still famous for whatever reason.

Comment author: shminux 17 June 2012 06:36:11AM -1 points [-]

ongoing, publicized debate between evolution and creationism, which is analogous to analytic vs. continental philosophy

I guess I fail to see an analogy between a debate between two factions in what is supposedly a science and that of science vs religion. In the latter case, it is easy to tell who the loony is, while in the former the only conclusion I can make is that they both are.