Taylor wrote:@ ant and Flann:
Blow off that steam, you've earned it.
You've ridiculed an often self admitted easy target. Congratulations on your victory.
I guess you're right Taylor. I'm not so sure about the often self admitted easy target part. But yeah it was a joke I probably should have refrained from.
Incidentally the thing about atheist churches is not to suggest that all atheists go to churches.
It's a point of view that scientists are the secular priesthood with celebrity Bishops etc.
That would be Berlinski's view. He's an agnostic but very critical of the fundamentalist new atheist stance claiming scientific justification.
It was interesting to me in looking at the global warming issue to learn how many skeptical scientists were kicked out of their jobs because of their skepticism.
The scientific establishment is intolerant of even other scientists who don't hold to the prevailing 'orthodoxy'.
Not on all issues but those deemed somewhat sacrosanct.
I appreciate the fact that you speak your mind Taylor and say what you think is right