Stop the servile deference, please
I’m really, really tired of skeptics who are committed to investigating and criticizing irrationality unless that irrationality is of the religious sort. I certainly commend anyone who devotes their time to combating irrational and baseless paranormal/supernatural claims, but there’s absolutely no excuse for excluding religious beliefs/assertions/practices from that inquiry and criticism just so that the [...]
Francis Collins. Ugh. (The Sequel)
Because of the health care bill’s passage (again, YAY!), Francis “Waterfall Jesus” Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, has popped up in the media this week. Here’s a question from an interview with Collins on The Washington Post‘s site: Have the people at the NIH adjusted to having a believer in their midst? [...]
Francis Collins. Ugh.
Oh, ugh. Francis Collins has edited a new collection of essays on religious belief and its relationship to reason. Before I get to that, some background: Last summer, when Collins was appointed as the new Director of the National Institutes of Health, many people, myself included, were understandably very concerned, as he is an evangelical [...]
Accommodationism gives up the battle before it has even begun
Ugh. Michael Shermer has written an article at The Huffington Post, called “Theism v. Atheism: I’m a Realist, not an ‘Accommodationist.’” It’s in response to criticisms of his recent CNN Opinion piece, “Religion, evolution can live side by side,” in which he attempts to explain why so many people reject the fact of evolution, starting [...]
