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Hmmm…. Is Wikipedia too frightening for you? Then why not try Conservapedia instead? Guaranteed to have excised any facts that may hurt your ever more fragile faith.

Gah!

Yet more science vs. religion.

While this story is itself very very disturbing (Ukraine babies in stem cell probe) what worries me more is that it will no doubt play into the tabloid/neocon hands:

I can just see the argument: “look how evil it is, we must stop all stem cell research”, rather than “look what our prohibition is creating”.

• War on Drugs
• War on Terror
• and finally, the one they’ve all be moving towards, War on Science

Shit

I know he’s on a book run at the moment and so his current high visibility is a function of marketing rather than public interest it is still very soothing to a rabid atheist like myself to see such positive coverage of Richard Dawkins’ position on God.

This is the sort of thing that makes my blood boil. Intelligent Design information pack sent to schools and 53% of all heads of science (that’s 59% of 90% for those of you that missed maths, by the way) think “it would make a useful teaching aid”. One hopes in the sense of useful in helping children identify nutters but I get the feeling that’s not the one meant.