"... as long as they're capable, ..." But that's the whole point. Dawkin's argument seems to be that, while a YEC may at first glance seem adequately skille

"... as long as they're capable, ..." But that's the whole point. Dawkin's argument seems to be that, while a YEC may at first glance seem adequately skilled, their manifest disregard for scientific evidence means that they cannot be trusted to do the job correctly. "Other cultures are a lot less pragmatic, and are willing to ignore an absence of facts as long as they can get results." Aren't results facts? Or, put another way, how does someone determine that they are getting results? I don't see how the willingness to try things in the absence of facts is non-Western. It sounds a lot like experimentation. The issue here isn't the absence of facts, it's the ignoring of facts (by YECs and their ilk).