Advocacy Group Forces Catastrophe ‘Consensus’ on Schoolkids

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Heartland :

Casting Science Against Religion

Underscoring the mindset of anti-religious groups, in 1996 prominent scientist Richard Dawkins was declared the American Humanist Association’s (AHA) Humanist of the Year. In his acceptance speech he stated, “Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.”

In 2009, the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) accidentally leaked talking points it provided for activists in Texas which stated, “Science posits that there are no forces outside of nature. Science cannot be neutral on this issue. The history of science is a long comment denying that forces outside of nature exist, and proving that this is the case again and again.” The document even encouraged activists to wax theological: “All educated people understand there are no forces outside of nature.”

Dr. Eugenie Scott, a physical anthropologist, insisted NCSE’s “goals are not to promote disbelief” but rather to push people to “understand evolution and hopefully accept it.” Nonetheless, she has stated evolution is “threatening” to those who take “a human exceptionalism kind of view.” She added, “Darwinian evolution needs to be coped with, and it may not be psychologically easy.”

Taken together, NCSE’s affiliations and the comments of Scott and others suggest a lack of sincerity in NCSE’s outreach to religious believers and to conservatives, Republicans, and non-liberals in general.

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Heartland

Casting Science Against Religion

Underscoring the mindset of anti-religious groups, in 1996 prominent scientist Richard Dawkins was declared the American Humanist Association’s (AHA) Humanist of the Year. In his acceptance speech he stated, “Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.”

 

Ran Across This Earlier about our boy Dickie

 

The bizarre – and costly – cult of Richard Dawkins

It’s like a church without the good bits. Membership starts from $85 a month

Andrew Brown

16 August 2014

 

 

 

The other day I wrote something to upset the followers of Richard Dawkins and one of them tracked me down to a pub. I had been asked to give a talk to a group of ‘Skeptics in the Pub’ about whether there are any atheist babies — clearly not, in any interesting sense — and at the end a bearded bloke, bulging in a white T-shirt, asked very angrily where Dawkins had said there were any. I quoted a couple of his recent tweets on the subject:

 

When you say X is the fastest growing religion, all you mean is that X people have babies at the fastest rate. But babies have no religion.

 

How dare you force your dopey unsubstantiated superstitions on innocent children too young to resist? How DARE you?

 

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