May 5, 2009

What evolution is*

Dogma is certainly what is on the other side of ["intelligent design"] in this fight — a materialist dogma which, posing as the standard-bearer of reason against obscurantism, actually embodies irrationality and a kind of intellectual fascism.**

It is a secular inquisition — as the reaction to my [specious, unsupported drivel] makes all too plain.
Poor beleaguered Melanie Phillips!Jerry Coyne

Earlier: Radical like a Puritan.

* h/t Ernst Mayr.
** Read: Teaching biology in biology class.

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