As one of the comments on the article points out, it's amusing that Steven Pinker is one of the cited critics, given his own record of writing intellectual feel

As one of the comments on the article points out, it's amusing that Steven Pinker is one of the cited critics, given his own record of writing intellectual feel-goodery. Pinker: "To begin with, the findings of science entail that the belief systems of all the world’s traditional religions and cultures—their theories of the origins of life, humans, and societies—are factually mistaken."[1] [1] http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114127/science-not-enemy-humanities http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114127/science-not-enemy-...