So, in this article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/feb/21/religion.highereducation
the Guardian notes how there has been a resurgence of determined anti-Darwinists in the schools in England, who are intentionally putting down answers on their biology tests which challenge Darwinian orthodoxy, knowing that they might lose scholarships and fail to enter college if they do so. They are viewing it as an exercise of religious courage, and a deliberate challenge to what they see as a ‘tyranny of science.’ The only problem is, of course, that their views have long since been logically demolished by centuries of scientific advance: these people will fly in airplanes, but essentially disbelieve a lot of the science which keeps them in the air! One cannot disbelieve parts of science: one cannot disbelieve some parts of biology, in other words, without having to disbelieve some of the laws of chemistry, and some of the laws of physics, since they are all interconnected. And in order to disbelieve some of geology (say, the moving of the tectonic plates), one once again has to disbelieve so much physical evidence, and so many laws of physics, chemistry, and biology, that one might as well assert the existence of Willy Wonka. (more…)
