Originally Posted By: Wayne Zeller
It's unfortunate that it was so condescending to religion, though. She could have made her points without reducing herself to taunting.

Religion in America has, in recent years, been encroaching upon - or should I say stomping all over - the territory of science. Maybe this is exclusively the doing of the Christian fundamentalists to whom you've referred. The result, whatever, has been serious problems with science education in schools. I'm reluctant to raise the name 'Bush' yet again, but he gave his stamp of approval for the teaching of non-science nonsense in science classes. From what I read, science seems to be reclaiming lost territory, but only after a series of battles. Little wonder that we see reactions like that of Natalie Angier.



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