1. Moral relativism. Some of you may have noticed this is a favorite of mine. I'd probably use the "saved by faith, not works" sort of thing as the basis: Morality, in that view, is just a mortal pastime. You can do whatever you want, so long as you luck out in believing in the right stone idol.
2. Epistemological relativism/instability/whatever. The truth is one thing one day, and then another thing the next. Whichever is convenient. One example that comes to mind is the archaeopteryx: Some Creationists say it's all bird, and others say it's all reptile with faked feathers.
3. Newage Retro Hippies. Do everything I can to associate them with "modern" forms of woo, like alternative medicine, psychics, flying saucer cults, etcetera and suggest Creationism is a gateway to these things. Might compare belief in Reiki to faith healing, for example.
4. Godwin like crazy. Quote Hitler:
"The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger will retain the character of a tiger." - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, vol. ii, ch. xiInclude a bit on Sarah Palin mocking fruit fly research and compare it to Trofim Lysenko's description of biologists as "fly-lovers and people-haters."
Any other ideas I could use? Sound clips and captured images would be nice, too.
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I'd make it as satirical as possible.
Yeah. It'll be an exaggeration of my views, but not by far as some might think.
Hoping to make it sound like something from the 1950's, possibly gushing over how wonderful it is to live in America where science gives us freedom and apple pie.
Mmm... pie of the apple persuasion...
Show some hip kids getting screwed up at a party a la Reefer Madness.
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