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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.

Date: 2007-05-29 05:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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 :)

Date: 2007-05-30 07:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

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