PZ Myers: The war between science and religion - Part 6/12

Faith has intruded into education like never before. In America schools are fighting to keep evolution in their science curriculum while others are fighting to keep the religious movement called creationism out.

This is not only a fight in the United States. In Alberta the government funds up to 70% of some Christian fundamentalist schools. In Ontario catholic schools funded by all taxpayers frequently deny admission to non-Catholic students. In Quebec, the new faith and ethics course denies equal time to secular ethical worldviews like humanism.

Dr. PZ Myers has been a longtime critic of intelligent design and has written extensively on the topic on his popular blog http://www.scienceblogs.com/pharyngula . Earlier this year the Catholic League asked the University of Minnesota to take legal action against Myers after he publicly criticized those who had sent death threats and hate mail to a young man who took a communion wafer back to his seat and didn't consume it as expected.

Dr. Myers has shown frequent contempt for religion on his blog. He once ripped out pages of the Q'uran and threw them in the garbage with old coffee grinds and banana peels. His university dismissed the call for action by stating that their faculty is allowed to express themselves however they see fit.

Dr. Paul Z Myers, PhD is a professor of biology at The University of Minnesota, Morris campus. He works with zebra fish in the department of evolutionary developmental biology. His blog, Pharyngula is the most widely read science and atheism blog on the Internet. He is a self-avowed godless liberal and as such is one of the most vocal skeptics on all forms of religion, pseudoscience and superstition.

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[alwaysright10000]

What would have happened if we'd lost the Dover trial?

Absolutely chilling.

[ananiasacts]

I sure agree that we have to take off the kid gloves and treat religious people like they are delusional at best, and that their insistence on continuously promulgating inane and socially toxic ideas leaves us no choice but to consider them morally bankrupt and potentially dangerous people. Religion is a badge of dishonor and shows contempt for one's intrinsic responsibility as a member of a society--swearing allegiance instead to a dictator that they're happy to believe owns everything.

[Aletheophile]

Why would anyone want to minimise expelled's publicity? the film was all most universaly unpopular and an epic own goal. The film is to creationism as Sarah Palin was to the republican party.

[VoteNixon2008]

He's a brilliant lab administrator but boy did he go off the deep end in that book!

[mchchicago78]

Especially if you read the judge's decision and how he calls out the "religious" people on their lies. These are the people who propose to teach the children of this nation and the future generations about morality; by lying and deceiving, labeling and prejudging.

Fight the fight :)