{"id":93,"date":"2008-03-26T09:59:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T09:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/03\/26\/breaking_my_own_promise\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T09:59:55","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T09:59:55","slug":"breaking_my_own_promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/03\/26\/breaking_my_own_promise\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking my own promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know, I said I wouldn&#8217;t enter this debate.  But Steve Matheson gets it <em>so right<\/em> I feel that I would be remiss if I didn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/sfmatheson.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/who-speaks-for-science-or-why-loud.html\">link there<\/a> .  His last point is so well made that I&#8217;m going to quote it in full:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>3. Hold the scientific community accountable for how it responds to misuse of its name.<\/strong> Instead of blaming Myers and Dawkins for doing what they do best, exert moral pressure on the rest of science to be clearer about what is and isn&#8217;t a legitimate invocation of the authority of science. Christians, after all are rightly suspected of moral failure when\/if they fail to condemn outrages perpetrated in their name. Why should this not be expected of scientists? And while no human can find the time to answer every summons to repudiate the idiocy of fellow travelers, the world has a right to ponder whether relative silence signals tacit approval.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\nWe have some loud atheists who like to pretend that it is science, and not unbelief, that is in conflict with belief. Shall we silence them? OF COURSE NOT. We should thank them for getting some important questions into the public square, then we should make it quite clear that their efforts have little to do with science, and everything to do with their perfectly legitimate but completely religious convictions.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nYou really should read the rest of the post too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know, I said I wouldn&#8217;t enter this debate. But Steve Matheson gets it so right I feel that I would be remiss if I didn&#8217;t link there . His last point is so well made that I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/03\/26\/breaking_my_own_promise\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}