Greg Conterio, echoing Robert Bidinotto, makes the point that culture war differences often pit the facts versus the narrative. The facts can win every battle but the narrative wins the war. As Bidinotto puts it, “One of the most valuable insights I discovered in recent years is how Narratives trump everything else — including what most of us would call concern for ‘practical results.’” Conterio and Bidinotto are mainly concerned with political issues, but what lies behind their insight is our beliefs about origins. Read more
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But if facts do matter, and a ‘narrative’ comes after, not before, the facts, (which is suppose to be the way that it is done in science), then the outline of the origins narrative takes a distinctively different form than the narrative Darwinists tell to the public: