[Right Wing Professor]

. Yet they continue to tolerate those in their midst who bait the creationists by making non-scientific attacks on religion. (I am thinking of Dawkins and his ilk.)

Dawkins is as entitled to promote his metaphysical beliefs as any Baptist preacher.

[Logophile]

Dawkins is as entitled to promote his metaphysical beliefs as any Baptist preacher.

Indeed he is. However, the Royal Society loses some credibility when it criticizes creationists for promoting their metaphysical beliefs as science but remains silent when atheists such as Dawkins do the same thing.