QOTD

[kate_nepveu]

From an American Scientist review of a book called Natural Security: A Darwinian Approach to a Dangerous World:

I mainly learned from this volume that evolutionary theory can have a strangely narcotic effect on the brains of otherwise intelligent people, leading them to take quite bizarre positions.

To which my reaction was, "True, but dude,

Comments

[mmcirvin]

One of the big problems, actually, is that people trying to advocate for well-grounded science are stuck between, on the one hand, creationists proclaiming that Darwin leads one inexorably to Nazi eugenics, and, on the other hand, people spinning evolutionary just-so stories about gender relations, racial differences in IQ and the breeding of terrorists; and each side tends to accuse them of being in league with the other.

[tool_of_satan]

I've run into a number of creationist engineers.

[cofax7]

EvPsych people make me Crazy.

[burger_eater]

Narcotic effect? Shouldn't that be a hallucinogenic effect?

[kate_nepveu]

Well, people on narcotics are often in pretty altered states too . . .

[burger_eater]

Ah! I should have put my at the top of my post and avoided embarrassment!