Should Scientists be Afraid of Fundamental Religions?

This is a question asked by Ben Stein, in the film "Expelled: No intelligence allowed". All the Christians want, he says is to ask questions.

There is historical evidence that religions persecute scientists, and nobody wants to be burned at the stake. But of course, Ben doesn't want to do that, does he? No, in fact Ben say quite the contrary, it's the scientists who are persecuting Christians. For example Christian scientists rejected from a job in a science faculty. All they did was mention casually that the first man was Adam, and that Eve was made from his rib, and all the animals came from Noah's Ark after the flood.

I would suggest that the time has long since passed when there was any debate in the public forum or at an open university on the matter of Adam and Eve vs. evolution. The scientists have gone on with the theory of evolution, and have made many scientific advances based on it. But certain religions, (not all), have simply refused to accept the result of that debate many years ago. They have regrouped, formed their own "universities", and have gotten funding from Christian TV networks that sell "miracles worth thousands of dollars" at $50 a pop.

These religions are mainly the Evangelical Christians and Southern Baptists, yes the same ones famous for condemning Abolitionists to hellfire before the civil war. Now their tactic is an all out and dirty propaganda war, trying to make the case that the scientists and Darwinians are responsible for the Jewish holocaust, and for all of Hitler's crimes. This was also covered in Ben Stein's movie. Scientists are not equipped to fight a propaganda campaign, actually I have found that most educated people are unaware of many, if not most propaganda techniques. On top of that, they don't have the funding and the media ownership to do it. It is a very uneven battle, science vs. propaganda.

Scientists may be right about one thing, they have got something to be worried about. More and more people seem to be converting to these religions, and they are preaching that scientists are worse than Nazis. And the scientists have taken note that these religions coincidentally support torture. I'm talking about today, not a hundred or a thousand years ago. I think an educated person would have to have their head stuck in the sand to not be a wee bit concerned about the resurgence of fundamentalist religion in the USA.

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