Intelligent Design’s godfather openly declared himself a postmodernist deconstructionist

Evidence

My plan, as it were, is to deconstruct those philosophical barriers … I’m relativizing the philosophical system. … I told them I was a postmodernist and deconstructionist just like them, but aiming at a slightly different target. — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 276

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts the common assumption that science-denialists are unsophisticated; shows deliberate weaponization of an academic critique of objectivity. — connects to: Intelligent Design theory deliberately borrowed postmodernist tactics from evolution’s opponents — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 272; Intelligent Design creationism fuses Christian fundamentalism with postmodernism — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 273; Intelligent Design’s founder reframed the evolution fight to avoid a science-versus-Bible framing — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 275 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Intelligent Design theory deliberately borrowed postmodernist tactics from evolution’s opponents #expands (0.85) — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 272
• The Discovery Institute has long used postmodernist arguments to attack evolution #corroborates (0.85) — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 274
• Intelligent Design’s founder reframed the evolution fight to avoid a science-versus-Bible framing #expands (0.82) — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 275
• Intelligent Design creationism fuses Christian fundamentalism with postmodernism #expands (0.80) — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 273
• Poststructuralist theory is itself a postmodernist symptom, not a neutral tool #expands (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 63
• Postmodernism transformed the modernist experience of self-loss into a celebrated utopia of unbelonging #corroborates (0.70) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 271