http://citizentom.com/2009/01/23/god-versus-science/ Welcome to Conservative commentary from Gainesville, Virginia. That's OUTSIDE the Beltway. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:50:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://citizentom.com/2009/01/23/god-versus-science/#comment-15041 Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:39:50 +0000 http://citizentom.wordpress.com/?p=3669#comment-15041 It’s interesting: this version of the e-mail is missing a line from the one that I received, which contained a mention at the end that the faithful student was none other than Albert Einstein. But Einstein (or any other student) never had this conversation. Fortunately, snopes debunked this attribution. The professor is plainly a fictional straw man. He “grins knowingly”, he’s “still smiling”, and the student “squirms.” It’s fiction writing, and he’s the setup man for the climax. The characterizations of him are so obviously anti-science, that any regular reader can see the fiction in this immediately. But then it’s not meant to reach a well-read audience. As Citizen Tom points out, it’s meant to make people feel that someone has out-smugged science on their behalf (never mind the irony of reading an email on a computer that would not exist without science). But what’s frustrating (as Tom says) is that it prolongs and fosters the ongoing “war” between science and religion, a battle which really only exists in those people where toleration and willingness to learn is lacking.

]]> http://citizentom.com/2009/01/23/god-versus-science/#comment-15034 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:16:59 +0000 http://citizentom.wordpress.com/?p=3669#comment-15034 Great post, Tom!

]]> http://citizentom.com/2009/01/23/god-versus-science/#comment-15033 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:29:19 +0000 http://citizentom.wordpress.com/?p=3669#comment-15033 [...] just floated in from somewhere. Personally I see no problem whatsoever with Science co-existing woth religious belief. Many [...]

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