Saturday 28 March 2009
Religion-motivated efforts to derail serious biological enquiry, and therefore to interfere with responsible science education, are worse than merely a time-and-energy wasting distraction. They arise in connection with all three of the main nodes of contention between religious and non-religious outlooks in today’s society. One is the question of the intrinsic credibility of the claims made by revealed religions, another is the question of how much influence religious viewpoints should have in the public square, and the third is the overall question of the relation between religion and science. Why Evolution is True ☀
