One of the great tasks to which our liberal friends are called is to champion the cause of “science.” They mean by that witnessing for Darwinian explanations of reality against Christian “fundamentalism.” Yet while busily plucking the speck of dust out of the eyes of the creationists and the Intelligent Design activists, David Horowitz explains, they are letting the nation’s universities truckle to a different band of religious activists.
Yet at that very moment professors in American universities were teaching a form of secular creationism as contrary to the findings of modern science as the Biblical claim that the God had made the world in seven days.
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The name of this theory is “social constructionism,” and its churches are Women’s Studies departments situated in universities across the United States...
These priests and prophets maintain that differences between men and women are not biological but “socially constructed” by a patriarchal society.
Even though it is scandalous to say so in an American university, the science is in on this one.
The scientific evidence is summarized in a recent book, Sex Differences in Cognitive Ability, whose author, Diane Halperin, is president of the American Psychological Association and was a social constructionist herself before reviewing the scientific literature.
Yes, socialization is important. But underneath it all are biological factors that cannot be explained away as social conditioning.
But you are not allowed to say that at Harvard, at least, not if you are President.
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