And I sense some frustration from you when a fellow atheist so succinctly explains why atheistic 'science' is really scientism...religion.
The only thing that bothers me are your daft conclusions, not what your carefully selected "atheist" supposedly said.
Typically here in TOL, evolutionists cry 'quote mining' when one of their own, says something they disagree with.
Typically, in real life, scientists will say many things, sometimes enlightening and informative or sometimes not so. Sometimes they may have their own personal agenda. Science isn't populated by a homogenous group of people who all believe the same thing, but YEC's ears only seem to prick up if they think that some of their words can be turned against science or made to seem like they said something that in fact they did not intend.
Most scientists don't normally have to deal with YECs and thus don't normally choose to make sure that their words are carefully vetted so that they cannot be misinterpreted or quote mined.
More of evolutionary biologist, Leowontin's quote.....
"We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfil many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door"
each: (My grandson wanted me to click the princess)
I'm happy for your grandson but I already addressed the above in my previous post to which you haven't responded to, including a couple of unanswered questions, so I'll probably not bother casting any more pearls for the time being.
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