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It is a disgraceful and a dangerous thing for an unbeliever to hear a Christian, presumably explaining science, nutrition, and medicine, talking nonsense on these topics. Many non-Christians are well-versed in Natural knowledge, so they can detect vast ignorance in such a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The danger is obvious-- the failure to conform interpretation to demonstrated knowledge opens the interpreter, and by extension, Christianity as a whole, to ridicule for being unlearned.

All right, so St. Augustine didn't say "science, nutrition, and medicine," he said "the meaning of scripture." But other than that, he's describing a good 40% of my Facebook wall. More and more, religious people are pitching their tents in the vast, squashy wilderness that calls itself "natural living" or "alternative medicine," and are rejecting science and modern medicine -- not some of it, but all of it. Their creed is this: drugs are evil, chemicals are evil, doctors are evil.You can cure most diseases, mental or physical, with a handful of seeds and a few essential oils squirted into the proper orifices.

Above all, be afraid. It's not only Catholics, of course, who are using the most dubious of weapons in the backlash against science and medicine. Religious, agnostics, and atheists may all believe that, based on something they overheard on Oprah, they have pierced the veil and now they know better than the Mayo Clinic. But it's especially galling when Catholics become anti-science.

Disagreeing with the mainstream medical practices today may be “anti-science”, but not necessarily. I don’t know ANY who pick up their views from Oprah. Some do buy into the alarmism from upstream from salesmen like Mercola. Conservatives in general are attacked for questioning phony Nobel Prize laureate Michael Mann and the whole global warming scam. Laboratory researchers try to chase those who believe in Judeo-Christian morality, natural law and basic decency on euthanasia and embryonic stem cell research. Even on smaller things like transfats, the alarmists were right and the mainstreamers of just a few years ago were quite wrong.

IF a Christian truly believes what a Mercola says, or his own personal homeopath or naturopath, he is NOT helping science or the Faith by pretending otherwise. The Faith asks enough, and people should be allowed to make their own decisions as to what is sound science, what does the job versus what is immoral, and what is a waste of money or detrimental to health.

It is a disgraceful and a dangerous thing for an unbeliever to hear a Christian, presumably explaining science, nutrition, and medicine, talking nonsense on these topics.

Any more than to hear a renown non-Christian "scientist" talk about global warming, the dangers of Big Gulps, or the advantages of euthanasia?