Uncommon Subversion

The blog Uncommon Descent holds that ...

Materialistic ideology has subverted the study of biological and cosmological origins so that the actual content of these sciences has become corrupted. The problem, therefore, is not merely that science is being used illegitimately to promote a materialistic worldview, but that this worldview is actively undermining scientific inquiry, leading to incorrect and unsupported conclusions about biological and cosmological origins.

In actuality, however, it is the Intelligent Design Creationism ideology promoted by the Discovery Institute and William Dembski, who runs the Uncommon Descent blog, that is attempting to subvert the study of biological and cosmological origins so that the actual content of these sciences will become questionable and amenable to the notion of a supernatural explanation. The problem, therefore, is not merely that ID is trying to subvert science to promote a creationistic worldview, but that this worldview is intended to undermine scientific inquiry, leading to conclusions about biological and cosmological origins which incorporate supernatural explanations, setting the scientific clock back to the middle-ages.

Resistance to Science in America

[The] developmental data suggest that resistance to science will arise in children when scientific claims clash with early emerging, intuitive expectations. This resistance will persist through adulthood if the scientific claims are contested within a society, and will be especially strong if there is a non-scientific alternative that is rooted in common sense and championed by people who are taken as reliable and trustworthy. This is the current situation in the United States with regard to the central tenets of neuroscience and of evolutionary biology. These clash with intuitive beliefs about the immaterial nature of the soul and the purposeful design of humans and other animals — and, in the United States, these intuitive beliefs are particularly likely to be endorsed and transmitted by trusted religious and political authorities. Hence these are among the domains where Americans' resistance to science is the strongest. P. Bloom & D. S. Weisberg

From WHY DO SOME PEOPLE RESIST SCIENCE? By Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg

Well worth a look.