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[johnny9fingers]

Someone needs to give Martin, Lord Rees (the Astronomer Royal) a gentle talking to of the nicest kind: has he been listening too much to Tony Blair?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2089946,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=18

The head of the Royal Society was talking about alliances with the mainstream, and it was at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival, but even so...Thank God for Professor Steve Jones.

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[winterlion.livejournal.com]

To ally between Religion and Science is easy.
Shut up the people who claim there IS a conflict.

don't bend. Don't give in. Don't try to "alter reality to fit faith".
Feel free to be diplomatic though :)

Anyhoo - I agree with you :)

[vlion.livejournal.com]

Well, the cold truth is that The Organized Science Bigwigs have been hostile to science in the USA for 60ish years now(Scopes trial), and the modern christian attitude of anti-science is the backlash from that, and I think it is gaining a lot more momentum than is generally perceived. I don't see either as being a good view, but the truth is, being anti-religious creates what Americans might call Fighting Fundies.