THE CULTURE WAR AS SEEN FROM THE BUNKER

There have been many recent disclosures that the social media giants are skewed far to the Left, even to the extent of secretly censuring out (shadow banning) opposing views.

This also applies to Wikipedia, despite their profession of neutrality. For example, Wikipedia erroneously and dismissively defines Intelligent Design (ID) as “a religious argument for the existence of God.”

While many ID proponents are religious, many are not. Even agnostics have adopted ID on the basis of the evidence. For instance, Wikipedia deleted an

• ...entire entry for eminent paleontologist Gunter Bechly after Bechly became an open ID proponent. All of a sudden he was gone. (Terrell Clemmons, Salvo Magazine, #45, 18)

This has been the fate of many who have stepped-out-of-line. In “There is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind,” Antony Flew concluded that DNA required an intelligent cause:

• “It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design.”

• “I now believe there is a God…I now think it [the evidence] does point to a creative Intelligence almost entirely because of the DNA investigations. What I think the DNA material has done is that it has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved in getting these extraordinarily diverse elements to work together.”

Was Flew heralded for his openness to the evidence of DNA and his willingness to re-examine his past commitments? Certainly not! Instead, after his death he was vilified with accusations that senility had influenced his reassessments.

The Leftwards tilt has become a tsunami that has recast our social and intellectual landscape, forcing conservatives to flee into secret sheltered bunkers, while courage has become an endangered species.