{"id":572,"date":"2006-12-13T07:54:32","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T05:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=572"},"modified":"2006-12-13T07:54:32","modified_gmt":"2006-12-13T05:54:32","slug":"holocaust-deniers-and-creationists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"Holocaust Deniers and Creationists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u00b4s a Wikipedia definition of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holocaust_denial\">Holocaust deniers<\/a> and here\u00b4s a Wikipedia definition of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Creationism\">Creationism<\/a>.  What do these two have in common?  That they are both movements of people who try to fight facts with ideology.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nYes, granted, as a Jew I would rather have dinner with a creationist than a holocaust denier, but the problem I have with  <em> Christian fundamentalism which rejects various aspects of evolution, geology, cosmology, and other natural sciences that address the origins of the natural world.<\/em>, as the Wikipedia says, is that as soon as the world begins to accept one type of theory that would not be taught say at Columbia University, where I studied, cause there is no proof for it&#8230;.anything goes.  <\/p>\n<p>A certain brand of Christians or Orthodox Jews will insist that we do not have a common ancestor with the Chimp and another brand of Muslims will say the holocaust is Jewish propaganda.  And in a world of &#8220;beliefs&#8221; there\u00b4s not much possibility for facts to arise.  Once I had dinner with an orthodox Jewish woman who said she believed a literal interpretation of the Bible meaning that the world was created less than 6000 years ago.  What about dinosaurs I said?  They lived less than 6000 years ago she said.  Now if this woman had dinner with a Holocaust denier, what arguments could she use to convince him that the Holocaust actually took place?<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=572\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u00b4s a Wikipedia definition of Holocaust deniers and here\u00b4s a Wikipedia definition of Creationism. What do these two have in common? That they are both movements of people who try to fight facts with ideology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}