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He did not have to say so, but the implication was that maybe a century, maybe a millennium from now, the names of new planets, stars and galaxies might be Chinese. Or there may be no one to name them at all.
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I see the intolerance and vitriol coming almost entirely from extremist secularists. They are suppressing and marginalizing any and all academics who dare practice religion or to be informed by faith. The secularists are the arrogant and foolish ones who think that by misconstruing history and mis stating fact they can change the public square to their favor.
I think this is resulting from having a near feudal system in academia where academics are carefully sheltered from the larger society. If anything would lead to modern academia becoming more of an isolated backwater resembling Timbuktu or Baghdad,
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In my evil mind, this is just another example of somebody loving the extended attention span that a populist move provides.
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The problem has grown much worse as the elite educational insitutions no longer present an advanced as well as well balanced education in the sciences and humanities.
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While Dawkins has made useful discoveries in science, it is only in such an intellectually desecated situation as I have described above that Dawkins primitive nihilisms could be mistaken for philosophy at all, let alone even seriously listened to by an educated audience.
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