Saturday, February 3, 2018

Jerry Coyne wrote about what he calls "accommodationists". These are the fucktards who claim religious bullshit and science are compatible.

This is about "faith" which is used as an excuse to believe in childish fantasies that have zero evidence. Faith is not a virtue. Faith is a mental illness and usually it's incurable. Extreme stupid can't be fixed.

Here it is from Jerry Coyne's website. I suggest click the link and read the whole thing. I put the last paragraph here.

Jerry Coyne's website - Tom McLeish continues his accommodationism in Physics Today

The reason that people don’t support evolution, vaccination, or anthropogenic climate change has nothing to do with people arguing that religion and science are at odds. It comes from pure faith: a belief in things that make you feel good, and which you’ll support in the face of evidence. Those opponents would be just as vociferous if people like Andrew Dickson White, Richard Dawkins, and I had never existed. The problem is not science/religion incompatibilists like me. The problem is people like McLeish—people who claim that there’s scientific value, empirical value, in faith. It’s religion that’s the issue, and it poisons science by either making people deny it (creationism) or by making people think there are ways besides empirical investigation to suss out truth—the “method” of faith.

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