> In my opinion this mystical thinking begs the question if he can be trusted within his field. He obviously lacks the ability to remain impartial about his rel

> In my opinion this mystical thinking begs the question if he can be trusted within his field. He obviously lacks the ability to remain impartial about his religion. He's playing out a personal crisis in the open for his entire field to witness. > There's just too many things wrong with this that I can't adequately format them all for this post. I feel like I shouldn't have to teach him about things like Atheism. He should have the impartiality to learn about them, accurately, on his own before he goes around making an unsubstantiated ass out of himself. > And who is this mystical fairy-tale Templeton organization who rewards whimsical fringe scientists? > How is a "creationist scientist" (oxymoron in-and-of itself) getting an award from a creationist philanthropic organization for doing bad science to promote creationism newsworthy in the science community? If you'd read the article, you'd have found that Marcelo Gleiser, the recipient of the award, self-identifies as an agnostic. And a tiny amount of digging shows he's also obviously not a creationist: https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2012/01/18/145338804/why-do-so-many-have-trouble-with-evolution https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2012/01/18/145338804/why-d.... Your comment consists of little but bomb-throwing falsehoods, and is really about a straw-man of your own invention. It's not really the kind of thing that should be posted in a flamewar-prone topic, or anywhere for that matter.