The Coming Twilight of the Post-Wedge World?

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Categories : Post-Wedge World

Editor : MikeGene

published: samedi 13 janvier 2007 21:20:50

As regular readers of Telic Thoughts know, I both looked forward to and applauded the arrival of the post-wedge world. However, I am now beginning to doubt whether the post-wedge world will last very long. Two significant developments have occurred and they have nothing to do with the Discovery Institute. First, as I originally noted, the most famous scientist alive has been undercutting the Dover decision and secondly, this scientist, and several others from academia, have sparked a new socio-political movement that has absorbed this message. This movement includes scientists like Sam Harris, who denies the NAS position that science is neutral about the existence of God and instead uses the NAS membership as evidence to the contrary.

It turns out that I am not the only one who recognizes how Dawkins and his movement threatens the post-wedge world. Consider this excerpt from a recent interview of Dawkins:

Evolution, Science,