Like other scientists commenting on this \u201ctit-for-tat\u201d 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 \u201can anthropological insult to our own feeling of self-belief\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Nobody talks about \u201cbelief\u201d in the existence of oxygen, or E=MC2, or hydraulics. But in two very specific areas\u2013evolution and climate change\u2013the language of faith (and heresy) is routinely deployed.<\/p>\n
I wonder why.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Another schism has broken out in the Church of Evolution Like other scientists commenting on this \u201ctit-for-tat\u201d 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 \u201can anthropological insult to our own feeling of self-belief\u201d. Nobody talks about \u201cbelief\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-36355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-church-of-evolution-and-climate-change-and-its-heretics"],"yoast_head":"\n
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