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Some false equivalency in this article: "Francis Collins is an evangelical Christian and famed geneticist who has led the Human Genome Project and the National
by fuzzywalrus 10y ago
Some false equivalency in this article:
"Francis Collins is an evangelical Christian and famed geneticist who has led the Human Genome Project and the National Institutes of Health. And if you’re saying that conservatives may be tolerable, but evangelical Christians aren’t — well, are you really saying you would have discriminated against the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.?
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MLK Jr ≠ Francis Collins. Collins argues that DNA is the language of god which there's no empirical evidence to which. Plus, he's respected despite this, in his field. That seems like acceptance.
Also the article lists:
"But that doesn’t explain why there are conservative math professors but not many right-wing anthropologists."
I imagine that say, in the extreme cases of say: evangelical young earth creationists or a evangelical mormon believing that humans are 5000 years old or that Native Americans are the lost tribe of Israel is counterproductive.
- openasocket 10y agoThat "DNA is the language of God" quote is somewhat taken out of context: Collins was speaking metaphorically. The point of his writing is that Christianity and science are completely compatible.
- incompatible 10y agoReligious thinking may be compatible with science to the extent that religion is only used as some kind of motivating factor and doesn't affect the outcome or logic of the resulting science. However religion used instead to push an agenda, influencing the outcome of research, would seem counter-productive, and I can understand the wariness of social social scientists towards those with rigid beliefs.