How technology makes ideology irrelevant

Dienekes points to two interesting phenomena which when juxtaposed together show how the pace of technological change can outrun ideological arguments and hand wringing. Those of you who have been reading me since the early 2000s know where I stand on issues such as the "Kennewick Man" controversy. I think there's an objective reality which should be studied. The latter is a normative judgement. There's no rule embedded in the universe that truth needs to be set free, it's a preference. So when it comes to Creationism of organized institutional religions, or shamanic ethnic Creationism, I don't put much weight in its value or importance. But the shadow of Kennewick Man still looms over contemporary controversies as we crest the peak swell of human genomics in terms of the rate of increase of insight. Apparently members of the America Indian Program at Cornell are objecting to The Genographic Project. The ...