May 27, 2005
Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant
Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant - Weekend Review - Times Online
PublishedMay 21, 2005, Times Online
"As the Religious Right tries to ban the teaching of evolution in Kansas, Richard Dawkins speaks up for scientific logic
Science feeds on mystery."
"Admissions of ignorance and mystification are vital to good science. It is therefore galling, to say the least, when enemies of science turn those constructive admissions around and abuse them for political advantage. Worse, it threatens the enterprise of science itself. This is exactly the effect that creationism or “intelligent design theory” (ID) is having, especially because its propagandists are slick, superficially plausible and, above all, well financed. ID, by the way, is not a new form of creationism. It simply is creationism disguised, for political reasons, under a new name."
Posted by ernie at May 27, 2005 12:10 PM
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