on the other side of the circle

The conservative movement seeks to change science curricula by opening them up to considering alternatives, Intelligent Design and more extreme variants of creationism. In doing so, they put question the status of science as a unique method of truth production. Competing "narratives", such as the Genesis narrative could be considered.

This has struck me as a surprising variety of relativism. Even more so since, it seems to at least superficially lead to alliance of the conservatives and the anti-science left such as those who would argue that in post-colonial days, the hegemony of western systems of knowledge needs to be broken up.

While surprising, this parallel makes some sense, American conservatism, in many ways, reflects the interests of, and gives voice to, groups in American culture which are all but looking at the rest of the culture as if they were forces of some colonial power.