There’s that word again

Another schism has broken out in the Church of Evolution

Like other scientists commenting on this “tit-for-tat” dispute between Wilson and Dawkins, Koentges also detects the old struggle between those who focus purely on the gene and those who see it as “an anthropological insult to our own feeling of self-belief”.

Nobody talks about “belief” in the existence of oxygen, or E=MC2, or hydraulics. But in two very specific areas–evolution and climate change–the language of faith (and heresy) is routinely deployed.

I wonder why.