Dear thinktwice, if you sincerely believe that this is what you're doing, then I suggest you reflect on the excerpt from Prof. Lewontin. Try to see how it is he who is making an attack on reason, not Christians. In the interest of defending materialist science, he rules reason entirely out of the question: He point-blank states he is prepared to accept "the patent absurdity of some of [scientific materialism's] constructs," just so long as he can keep preserve his doctrine intact.
If you cannot grasp how irrational, anti-rational such a position is, then I wonder about the state of your own "reasonableness," or rationality.
Meanwhile, I repeat: Kindly desist from Christian baiting/bashing. Don't deny you do this: You do it here on my thread, and anywhere else you go at FR, and it is simply disingenuous of you to deny what is patently obvious to just about everyone else.
With regard to the other subject, I wish to observe that most atheists merely do not believe in God whereas the spirit of anti-Christ believes and hates God. Devils on the other hand, believe and tremble.
If you cannot grasp how irrational, anti-rational such a position is, then I wonder about the state of your own "reasonableness," or rationality.
What Prof. Lewontin is saying is that the use of reason is acceptable up to the point where reason conflicts with doctrine; and you're sayiing that Prof. Lewontin's position is irrational and anti-rational.
I agree with your assessment as to Prof. Lewontin's irrationality; but you don't seem to be connecting the dots showing positive correlation between Prof. Lewontin's position and theological positions; correlations that tell me their positions are one and the same when it comes to intentionally avoiding reason whenever reason conflicts with doctrine.