Word: earthism
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...rules of science. They do not publish papers in peer-reviewed journals, and their hypothesis cannot be tested by research and the study of evidence. Indeed, Behe concedes, "You can't prove intelligent design by an experiment." Dawkins compares the idea of teaching intelligent-design theory with teaching flat earthism-- perfectly fine in a history class but not in science. He says, "If you give the idea that there are two schools of thought within science--one that says the earth is round and one that says the earth is flat--you are misleading children...
...accuse its hangers of malicious terra firmism; they are clearly too young to have learned about the oppressive implications of privileging the third planet from our sun above the rest of the universe. But we should all ask ourselves if perhaps we, too, are not sometimes guilty of earthism as we giddily congratulate ourselves for living on a planet blessed with water and organic matter while implicitly denigrating the experience of the rest of our galaxy which is, after all, mostly rock and void...
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