[Wthrman13]

Well said indeed. I am also an active reasearcher, in the atmospheric sciences, and I cringe everytime some narrow-minded intellectual elitist claims that rejecting evolution is tantamount to rejecting the scientific method. It really, really irritates me.

[jimkress]

Well said indeed.

Thanks.

I am also an active reasearcher, in the atmospheric sciences

Really? Anything to do with computer climate modelling? I'm in the process of puting together a small beowulf cluster and would love to get my hands on some (current) climate modelling software. Any suggestions on how to do this?

[secret garden]

I'll bet the goron and his global warming talk put you right over the edge.

[Cedric]

Amen!

[Ichneumon]

Well said indeed. I am also an active reasearcher, in the atmospheric sciences, and I cringe everytime some narrow-minded intellectual elitist claims that rejecting evolution is tantamount to rejecting the scientific method. It really, really irritates me.

The act of rejecting evolution is not in itself tantamount to rejecting the scientific method. Unfortunately, in practice it usually is. That is, the person rejecting evolution almost always does so by throwing a great deal of science and the scientific method out the window.

One of the more classic examples is the "young Earth Creationists", who reject a huge amount of science, from many, many fields, that indicates the Earth/Universe is much more than just a few thousand years old. But other flavors of creationists have their own list of what parts of science and the scientific method they want to jettison in order to bolster their beliefs.