Joe Rogan had too interesting guests on this episode of his how. Both are professors that stirred up controversy. I guess Jordan Peterson is a conservative but the other professor is a
liberal and one that got bullied on the university campus where he works, by intolerant liberal students and staff.
At roughly the 31:00 minute mark of the video the discussion veers into the realm of science, and biological science, and the
liberal professor makes a point (one in fact I have made millions of times myself) that the science of evolutionary biology is inherently
Politically Incorrect. First off, as I have mentioned many times over, the natural sciences do not pontificate on morality, they simply
observe (e.g. wolves "murdering" moose) and try to come up with
rational explanations drawn from a series of
facts (like a homicide detective, but just as homicide detectives can get facts right but conclusions and suspects wrong, so to can scientist get their conclusions wrong--particularly when motivated by a political and social bias), to the point of being
amoral (the things they observe).
So, the liberal professor says that the science of biology will be increasingly
forced to submit to the reigning political and cultural authorities in the Western World. He brings up "Russia" (the Soviet Union or communist Russia he means) as an historical past example for a reason. Not many people realize that
atheist left-wing Russia during its communist era essentially outlawed de facto,
The biological Theory of Evolution. Consequently, it is said that communist Russia's advances in the biological sciences fell far behind the Western democratic capitalist world. I didn't know about this until several years ago. My view is that atheists in the West have successfully gotten the intellectual liberal world to promote a "blue wall of silence" around the errors and intolerance of the former atheist states of the Soviet empire. And then to promote a propaganda war on Christianity that exceeds in scale and rigor anything these liars assert the modern day Russians under Putin (possibly the greatest world leader on earth and modern day Constantine the Great) are in unholy manner
attacking the United States and seeking to destroy it. Well then... that would mean atheist, liberal, academia is in unholy manner attacking Christianity and seeing to destroy it. Of course they (atheists) deny this.
So, the
atheist states of the former Soviet Union, as I recall from what I read several years ago in a book, demanded (essentially) that the science of biology construct its narratives and explanations to align with and promote the communist's outlook upon the world of a struggle between capitalist rich people (artificially made so by being swindlers that are morally inferior) and basically the working people. Communist
atheist Russia persecuted homosexuals for a period by the way. Some were sent to the gulags (which I would argue is more severe than refusing to perform a gay wedding in a Catholic Church).
I've only watched up to the 32:45 mark of the video, so, things were probably said after that they may contradict some things I said above. Not sure.
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Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist and tenured professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. You can check out all Dr. Peterson's self-improvement writing programs at Self Authoring - Plan a Better Life
Bret Weinstein is a biology professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. Currently he is in the middle of an intense controversy that has been documented by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and several other mainstream media outlets.