Witnessing Creation.  

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Cole, Simon A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Studies of Science vol. 36 no. 6 (Dec. 2006), page 855.
Topik: creationsim; evolution; expert witnesses; intelligent design; law; normativity; reflexivity
Fulltext: 855.pdf (88.54KB)

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Creationism, it would seem, has long been one of those topics that constitutes an ‘elephant in the room’ for relativists, and it is hardly surprising that the recent revival of creationism’s fortunes in its reformulation as ‘Intelligent Design’ (ID) might cause some discomfort within science studies. The very day I decided to write this Comment my local newspaper contained a story about a ‘creation evangelist’ who ‘travels the nation training children as young as 5 to challenge science orthodoxy’ (Simon, 2006). As young as 5! Now, it just so happens that I have a child who was 5 at the time, and the idea that she needed to be instructed in the questioning of authority, scientific or otherwise, strikes me as somewhat fanciful. In fairness, however, I will admit that my 5-year-old did not seem particularly inclined toward critique of her teachers’ authority – at least as concerned the scientific controversy currently most pressing in kindergarten, which was not evolution, but rather the disputed claims to planetary status of the objects currently known as ‘2003 UB313’ and ‘Pluto’. Nonetheless, it must be admitted the evangelist Ken Ham’s instructions for 5-year-olds to question the authority of teachers who presume to lecture on the Big Bang – ‘Excuse me, were you there?’ – sound disturbingly reminiscent of Latour’s (1987: 76) impish questioning of ‘the Professor’:

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