Posted on 07/21/2009 2:09:21 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode
As soon as Francis Collins, an evangelical Christian geneticist who headed up the pioneering Human Genome Project during the 1990s, was floated as the possible new director of the National Institutes of Healthhe was officially named to the post on Wednesdaythe criticisms began flying. Evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne of the University of Chicago, for one, said Collins is too public with his faith. Collins wrote a book called The Language of God, frequently talks about his religious conversion during medical school, and recently launched the BioLogos Foundation, which declares, "We believe that faith and science both lead to truth about God and creation."
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Although the New Atheists are not so numerous, and much younger as a movement than their polar oppositethe Christian rightthey've amassed a powerful following, especially online, and have sold millions of books by prosecuting a culture war in precisely the opposite direction from the one waged by Christian conservatives. Science is their watchword, but it has always been about much more than that. The New Atheist science blogger PZ Myers, for instance, has publicly desecrated a consecrated communion wafer, presumably taken from a Catholic mass, and put a picture of it, pierced by a rusty nail and thrown in the trash, on the Internet.
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So Collins is "too public" with his faith. How do you like that?
Here's an example of a lunatic reaction from an atheist (evolutionist) on this issue: Collins may be NIH director.
Here is a little history lesson on atheist-evolutionist scientists. Should guys like that occupy every gov position?
“You are too public with your faith” peeng
Heck, why stop there. Just give the job to an ACORN community organizer. I'm sure they took a course in biology at some point and all that experience organizing communities should come in handy.
These gutless, atheist sissies like Coyne and Myers are just giving faithful worship to their gods, that being the leaders of the nineteen sixtie’s “hate America” and the “use the leftist court judges to destroy the Constitution” movements.
But most of them don't really give a crap about science. What they care about is advancing their left-wing causes.
And I say that as an atheist.
What’s ironic about all this is that the advocates for scientism (a philosophy which must be understood as distinct from “science” as a methodology) are the ones who constantly run around accusing people of faith of causing the “conflict” between science and religion.
The New Atheist science blogger PZ Myers, for instance, has publicly desecrated a consecrated communion wafer, presumably taken from a Catholic mass, and put a picture of it, pierced by a rusty nail and thrown in the trash, on the Internet.
Thank you PZ Myers for your admission that God exists.
If he did not then you would have no reason to desecrate a communion wafer as it would have absolutely no meaning to you. In other words why fight against something that does not exist?
I have no problem with science.
It only exists because God does.
The problem comes from the way some men use of science.
The title says it all.
Some artiste somewhere is probably jealous that he didn’t think of it first.
This guy is not going to be happy about where God throws him in the end.
But most of them don't really give a crap about science. What they care about is advancing their left-wing causes.
Your criticism doubtless applies to many. OTOH, I was plugged into the "Skeptic" movement (which seemed to be largely, but not exclusively, populated by atheists, agnostics and secularists) some 20 years ago and, in addition to debunking "psychics," UFOlogy and antievolutionism, they were also pushing back pretty hard against the global warming hysteria even then, long before many other critics jumped on the band wagon.
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