Manifesto of a Revolutionary [long version]  Book Review of
Modern Physics and Ancient Faith by Stephen M. Barr Mark Ryland
Discovery Institute June 30, 2004 Print Article  Shorter version
as published in Crisis Magazine  Book review:  Modern Physics
and Ancient Faith Stephen M. Barr, University of Notre Dame
Press, 312 pages, $30  The overthrow of a dominant system can
involve two kinds of revolutionaries. Some act as insurgents:
they attack the system from within using whatever weapons are
available to them as members of the system. Others function as
invaders: they begin outside the system and attack it with a
wider range of weapons not limited to those available within.
Both kinds of revolutionaries are necessary for an intellectual
revolution, the overthrow of a paradigm of thought. The
insurgents are necessary because the participants in the
reigning paradigm are likely to be impervious to outside
critiques. Initially, they will only feel the weight of
criticisms that are addressed to them in the intel