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    Scientists Find Anti-Christian Prejudice in the Science World


    No, Really? Scientists Find Anti-Christian Prejudice in the Science World
    David Klinghoffer | @d_klinghoffer
    January 31, 2020, 12:44 PM
    No, Really? Scientists Find Anti-Christian Prejudice in the Science World | Evolution News


    I suppose there's some value in demonstrating the obvious.

    Writing in the journal PLOS ONE, four academics from Arizona State University ask, "Are scientists biased against Christians?" I could have told them in a word: Yes! Clearly, there is significant, overt prejudice against Christians in the science world.

    Aggressive atheist biologists like Jerry Coyne, Richard Dawkins, and P.Z. Myers may not be typical of their profession in how much time they have spent verbally attacking religious believers, Christians in particular, but neither do they seem to have experienced much criticism for it from colleagues.

    Three Studies

    To be specific, the bias is not directed, for the most part, at mainline Protestants or Catholics, but rather at Evangelicals. And that is just what M. Elizabeth Barnes, who studies Biology and Society, and her colleagues from the Biology Education Research Lab at ASU confirmed. They conducted three separate studies: ....





    ...What's in a Word

    The statement that "scientists call" this group "fundamentalist and/or evangelical" makes it sounds as if that is an objective, scientific label. After all, scientists are our culture's preeminent objective truth tellers, are they not? Not quite. If you Google the phrase "fundamentalist Christian" to see how it's used in the media, you will not find many Christians affixing it to themselves. The word has a history, but "fundamentalist" today functions mostly as a term of mockery or reproach....





    ...In other words, they found that "most frequently," scientists, unlike "scholars of religion," freely and contemptuously use a term intended to denigrate a large swath of Christians, dismissing them as "rigid and unchanging in the light of new information," "discourag[ing] diversity of viewpoints," and "intrud[ing] on the domain of science." If that is not gross prejudice, what is?

    Add It Up

    I mentioned that there is value in confirming the obvious. But how much value?

    The four authors note at the end, "This project was supported by the National Science Foundation," followed by three grant numbers. The grants, which I assume went to other things besides the studies reported here, are in the amounts of $9,800,382, $292,767, and $423,003.

    That's right, a total of more than $10.5 million dollars from the Federal Government. Apparently, documenting what everybody already knows pays pretty well. I think I'm in the wrong business!











    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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    Yeah, tell us something we don't know. lol.

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    True, but we can take back that "mountain". I'm reading Henry M. Morris' The Remarkable Book of Job. He is a well-known creation scientist. This book is blowing my mind - the science that is displayed in the verses of Job is just ... awe-inspiring, deep, wonderful, and have further drawn me in to "God is Creator!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Muriel View Post
    True, but we can take back that "mountain". I'm reading Henry M. Morris' The Remarkable Book of Job. He is a well-known creation scientist. This book is blowing my mind - the science that is displayed in the verses of Job is just ... awe-inspiring, deep, wonderful, and have further drawn me in to "God is Creator!"
    I love the following quote by Robert Jastrow. Jastrow was an American astrophysicist who headed NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for many years. He was an enthusiastic popularizer of science who frequently appeared on television to talk about science and the space program. He was also a noted skeptic of human-caused climate change. Jastrow was an agnostic and non-believer, but his assessment of mankind's current state of knowledge led him to make some surprisingly frank observations about science and religion. The following, taken from God and the Astronomers, is perhaps the quote for which he is best known.

    "At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."

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    Quote Originally Posted by krystian View Post
    I love the following quote by Robert Jastrow. Jastrow was an American astrophysicist who headed NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for many years. He was an enthusiastic popularizer of science who frequently appeared on television to talk about science and the space program. He was also a noted skeptic of human-caused climate change. Jastrow was an agnostic and non-believer, but his assessment of mankind's current state of knowledge led him to make some surprisingly frank observations about science and religion. The following, taken from God and the Astronomers, is perhaps the quote for which he is best known.

    "At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."

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