Science is incompatible with religion, regardless of what the religious, desperate to preserve their dwindling patch, may say.
The worst type of religion - such as the junk intellectual deceitful pulp peddled as creationism - seeks to undermine the one true way we have of arriving at an understanding of our wonderful world, which is by publicly shared experimentation allied with thoughtful reflection, and undermines the ability of people to think honestly, which is what education should be about.
Even the more respectable forms of religion, such as institutionalised Christianity and Islam, propagate manifest nonsense that is totally incompatible with our scientific understanding of the world and can lead to the adoption of attitudes with appalling consequences.
These religions should be taught only as a part of our cultural history, for their impact there is undeniable, but they should be presented only as quaint ways of disguising ignorance, propagating wishful thinking, and exercising power over the ignorant and weak.
- Peter Atkins(물리화학 교과서 저자)
Creationism is bad science and bad religion. Neither has a place in our schools.
Good science reveals the evolution of life on Earth over billions of years. Good religion will come to terms with, rather than reject, the facts about our evolutionary past.
- Sir Neil Chalmers(영국 자연사박물관 관장)
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