Boing Boing strikes gold – a new name for evolution denialists [denialism blog]: «
Mark at Boing Boing proposes an excellent new name for Intelligent Design creationists – ‘cdesign proponentsists’. It’s in honor of this wonderful observation from ‘Of Pandas and People’ the creati … I mean cdesign proponentsists textbook:
This is one of numerous examples of their dishonesty in suggesting that they’re anything but creationists in disguise.
I like Mark’s idea, this should be their new name. It’s a bit of a compromise. They don’t want to be called creationists, and we don’t want them to get away with lying. It’s perfect!
Now as to the pronunciation. How about ‘see-design proponent cysts’?
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CIDiots would be more easy to use, I think. For the full name a new tag is on 😉
See your point.
However, I am wondering if we should start calling these people « evolution deniers » as we use the term « Holocaust deniers. »
The creationist, IDers, are continually evolving to use new tactics (teach the controversy, etc), but they have the common feature of denying evolution.
Why not?
Holocaust deniers deny/denied holocaust. Evolution deniers deny/denied evolution.
I call them evolution denialists for the last two years. And I’m discussing about other types of evolution deniers, teleologists that have nothing to do with creationism (they claim so at least).
There is one particular who is also a genetics denier and he seems allergic to experimental evidence 🙂
But for IDiots that fail to use the replace feature of their word processor correctly cdesign proponentsists seems appropriate.
That’s what happens when you can’t use the « search and replace » function properly.
Right! So, IDiots is a quite convenient name. Just an alternative one to use this « cdesign proponentsists » thing, to remember them their origins and that was evolving by imperfect recombination 😉