Most political ideologies, both of the right and of the left, entail
some commitment to "intelligent design". What do you think all that
stuff about the power of democratically controlled economic planning
is about? I seem to remember being told repeatedly by people who
appeared to know what they were talking about that the alternative was
a particularly callous and wicked option-for-the-rich, known as
"social darwinism".
I suppose you can make a case for democratically controlled economic
planning having an improvisatory and empirically responsive character
(rather than being the imposition of a timeless and extra-mundane
will), but I'm sure you could cook up some blend of ID and process
theology and end up saying much the same sort of thing. The variant of
ID that requires the Designer to be making continuous
micro-interventions in the unfolding of natural processes (a series of
"swerves", or catachreses), pretty much *is* saying that sort of
thing.
Either way, it isn't just backed-into-a-corner right wing fundies who
loathe "Darwin". I bet you could dig out more than a few old articles
in Social Text...
Dominic
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