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The Fool Says In His Heart... This entry was posted on 7/3/2007 10:57 PM and is filed under uncategorized. I read today that among members of the national Academy of Sciences, only 7% believe in a god. With numbers like that, their could also be those who are too afraid to admit it, even to pollsters. But what of the seven percent? How vocal are they? Will they admit it to their colleagues? There is one ironclad rule in academia, and even more so in science : There can be no God. You can be an anarchist communist avant-garde nudist polygamist, and be accepted into the fraternity of academia. The only rule that can never be broken is that you may not be a theist. Those who dare to believe in a higher power are looked down on as intellectual lightweights. That 85% of the population or more does believe in a supreme being is only proof to them that they are superior and above the fray. The church’s moral authority to speak to any issue of science was irrevocably lost during the whole “Galileo incident”. But then what of doctors and their authority to treat patients? After all, wasn’t there that whole leeching thing? (Which arguably killed our first president) Of course, we laugh at such medical antics now, but they are no different from the church misinterpreting the scriptures regarding the center of the universe. But such comparisons are not made. After all, you can’t blame the church for leeching. So what of those academics who dare to challenge the received orthodoxy of atheism? The suffering inflicted on such heretics is at least as bad as that which Galileo suffered. (If not in quality then certainly in quantity.)CommentsDisplay comments as (Linear | Threaded)
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