great article for the militant atheist
http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...ience-religion
the problem with, or the beauty of.... science, religion and politics is that they all contain within and across, competing thoughts... the beauty is the product that can be the result of competing thought ..the problem is the sense of superiority that a little "knowledge" can give an individual or group turning them into dishonest closed minded militants that become tools of destruction rather than instruments of good...we see this in politics..in religion... and science...and on American College campuses currently ...
"Here’s the problem with all these false dichotomies: At bottom, they come from, and reinforce, illiteracy. And while sophisticates can, and too often do, produce their own exquisite forms of barbarism, widespread illiteracy probably inexorably leads to barbarism. A scientist who doesn’t understand anything about epistemology, or religion, or philosophy, and gets on his soapbox is a joke. A scientist who does all these things and as a result is on best-seller lists and gets published in The New Yorker is a symptom of a serious social disease. Never mind the science-versus-religion “debate,” such as it is — widespread confusion about science’s epistemological framework is producing a lot of shoddy science, and that should have us all concerned."