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I'm a believer in NOMA - that is, religion in its place, science in its place thank you very much Professor Dawkins. Serious question: if ID proponents are given space in the science classroom to put their views, should "materialist scientists" be given space in the religion classroom (scripture classes, Divinity lectures, Sunday School etc) to put theirs?

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Throwing in some data into this (very satisfying and brain-exercising) discussion of Intelligent Design: statistics on beliefs about creation among scientists and the general US population. (These stats don't make clear what percentage of scientists believe that God exists but has not personally guided evolution.)

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News flash: today Australia's new iTunes Store suffered technical difficulties after becoming jammed by my drool.

The Devil's Asshat

OMG RICHARD DAWKINS IS LIKE A CHEESEGRATER ON THE NIPPLES

zomg!!!

Some of them were wearing black

Worrying news item in today's SMH about a suicide pact between two teenagers. Worrying not because of the tragedy itself, but because of the headlining emphasis on their being Goths. In the mind of the newspaper, that outweighs police bungling which might have rescued the young woman, and hugely outweighs the trauma the young man had experienced, as murder witness and then murder suspect, which is the very last thing mentioned in the article. I'll bet a buck the result of the double suicide is not improved policing or mental health services, but the banning of black clothes at the school.

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Found a ripping 2003 Guardian article on religious scientists. And here's a pointer to the Science and Religion Forum it mentions.