In which we discuss how the dogmatic faith commitments of evangelical atheists compel them to not look at evidence for miracles.<\/a> Almost instantaneously, an atheist shows up in the combox to explain, \u201cShut up.\u201d<\/p>\n Mike Flynn has a serendipitously\/providentially relevant post <\/a>on how our faith commitments (including, especially, those who worship the intellect rather than using it) affect our ability to reason.<\/p>\n If you want to see a spectacular example of the sort of hermetically sealed arrogance and ignorance which can result from the particularly cramped bubble that is cyber-atheism, go here <\/a>and watch the embarrassing spectacle as Flynn (\u201cYe Olde Statistician\u201d) tries to educate the herd of independent thinkers in Jerry Coyne\u2019s comboxes. Eventually, Coyne, as is the custom with such fundamentalist dogmatists, explains \u201cShut up!\u201d to Flynn for his crime of reasoned and dispassionate dispatching of the primitive fundamentalist tropes that pass for \u201crationality\u201d among his acolytes, toadies and hangers-on. Because, you know, self-proclaimed \u201crationalists\u201d are all about reasoned discourse, while theists are ignorant obscurantists who fear reason.<\/p>\n