Thursday, April 12, 2007

 

Why We Fight

PZ Myers has a reaction up to the fact that a school board has dropped the teaching of the holocaust to avoid offending Muslims. He sees this as part of a larger issue. The money quote is below:

this struggle in which we're engaged is more than a fight against a few specific clowns — it's for a broader ideal of striving towards a truth, against those who want to twist perception of reality to support short-sighted, selfish, and silly beliefs. It's not just science, it's history, politics, culture. If you side with the primacy of faith over reason in science, there is a long list of other virtues you will also be sacrificing on your altar.


I am a fair bit more "live and let live" then Myers is, but I agree with the principle.

# posted by Jacob @ 4/12/2007 12:32:00 p.m.
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