Can Science Resist the Woke Revolution?
by Rick Plasterer, Juicy Ecumenism:
The identity politics of the far left, or “woke” ideology is a major threat to the Christian faith, as it proceeds from the presupposition of people as victims rather than sinners. However much we recognize that injustice does occur, the most basic problem from which humanity suffers is sin residing in the human heart. The cultural conquest of much of society – certainly educational institutions, corporations, the entertainment industry, legacy news media, and to the extent that Democratic administrations have been able to work their will, government agencies – presents a grave problem not known before in American history.
Science is ordinarily thought of as controlled by objective reality, known through scientific evidence and arguments, and thus immune to ideological formulations. But the collectivist ideologies prominent today propose to address and control all of reality, and thus finally must endeavor to somehow subdue the natural sciences, as happened to some degree in the Soviet Union. With the “woke revolution” the nation is currently experiencing we are in fact seeing some effort in this direction. Astrophysicist Jeff Zweerink, senior research scholar for the apologetic organization Reasons to Believe discussed this at the recent Southern Evangelical Seminary apologetics conference in Rock Hill, South Carolina on October 14.
Ideology Affecting the Scientific Community
Zweerink said that woke ideology “is beginning to seep into the sciences … at least … into the people who are doing the science.” Woke ideology in science begins with the observation that the demographic of the scientific community does not reflect the demographic of the general population. Whites and Asians are overrepresented, Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans are underrepresented. This is held to be a problem in itself, and evidence of systemic discrimination.
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