Comments on: Boxing Day Prayer https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/26/boxing-day-prayer/ Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:14:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Elf Eye https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/26/boxing-day-prayer/#comment-550616 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:14:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/26/boxing-day-prayer/#comment-550616 As Tertullian wrote, “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” I think scientists should carry on their reality-based research without apologizing for the fact that the implications of their research are distasteful to some. What else are they supposed to do? Apologize every time the evidence doesn’t support one particular set of bronze age myths that by happenstance managed to survive into the modern era while other such myths fell by the wayside?

]]> By: The Flying Trilobite, fcd https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/26/boxing-day-prayer/#comment-550615 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 07:28:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/26/boxing-day-prayer/#comment-550615 I agree; having a warning notice up at the local place-of-religious-worship should not matter to the faithful anyway; the point is they believe on faith, with no evidence needed (and huge dollops of anecdotal feelings that It is True).

I don’t think Canada has anything like those fraud-laws against people claiming to be psychics.

Your suggestion might sound to some like an advancement of the government into private businesses; I wonder why it could not be extended further, into homeopathic ‘doctors’ offices. At least a warning that nothing is proven…?

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