Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Microscopes have no morals: “James Watson, co-unraveller of DNA, told television viewers recently how ’embarrassed’ he is to meet scientists who believe in God, or indeed who take religion seriously. He was talking to his chum and fellow atheist Richard Dawkins. Both are outstanding and prominent spokesmen for their trade – Dawkins a professor of science communication at Oxford. The message from on high seems clear. Religion is dead. Long live science.
But religion has been entwined in science from its beginnings, and has never gone away. Many scientists today are devout. Some, including some who are highly competent, are as committedly Christian or Muslim or Jewish as Watson and Dawkins are atheist. “
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