How ironic that science – a supposed neutral methodology – has taken on the status of an authoritative graven image, with all the dogmatic accoutrements that accompany a religious system.  Nothing illustrates this more than its stance on naturalistic macro-evolution and on climate change.

As for the former, the neo-Darwinian model never had the intrinsic explanatory power to be so much as a working hypothesis, even before its detractors began making mincemeat of its assumptions by holding its manifold contradictions and threadbare evidence to the antiseptic light of day.  Yet it permeates modernity’s worldview and is as resistant to the call for reconsideration or reformation as any 16th-century cleric.  If the edifice is now crumbling, it is due to the fact that all idols contrary to truth, like Dagon in the Philistine temple, come to fall on their faces.

As for the latter, it is no longer an article of contention that those who drive the global warming agenda have made common cause with political forces, and those entities are hell-bent on maximizing their own climate of fear as they aggregate power for their own ends.  Having perfected the technique of using a thin veneer of altruism as a fig leaf to cover their nakedness, the left have become what they once claimed to despise: a monolithic authority impervious to reason.  It is for this reason alone that they have wrangled science into a state of harlotry, using influence, money, and promotion as the methodology by which their new quasi-science will approach the remaking of the world.  Those who have whored out a tool of inquiry, in the service of justifying their agenda, revealed their true hand when threats of prosecution, as well as the demolition of professional reputations of the heretical, were laid on the table.  Apparently, little has changed from when Galileo was forced to mutter under his breath, "Yet it moves."

That the leftist-globalist agenda cannot long stand is a testament to the unreflective passion of an ulcerated vision that believes, by the sheer force of its rhetoric, that men will come to see spherical objects as squares.

Glenn Fairman writes from Highland, Calif.  He can be contacted at arete5000@dslextreme and on www.stubbornthings.org.