Coming off of that last post, I got hit by an idea. Snide references aside, it has been some time since the divine ahah settled upon me.
Someone might say that the majority of people in America are Christian, and therefore we should eschew Happy Holidays in favor of Merry Christmas. I thought next, just because the majority favors calling the accoutrements of the season “Christmas” X, it doesn’t mean that the primacy of old pagan claims to the symbolism can be ignored.
The thought carried on to Intelligent Design and the scientific method, particularly when pro-ID’ers use the issue to run for school boards. And without further ado, here’s the thought:
Just because a majority wants an idea to be true, that does not mean that idea is a fact. Popular opinion has no role in the scientific method.
This applies equally well to any findings that there may be racial differences in physiology, or any other finding that might violate the sacred precepts of political correctness.
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