"You’d think that, for a website devoted to reconciling faith with the facts of science, the idea of Genesis as inspirational fiction would not be negotiable. If anything is absolutely, rock-bottom true, it’s that life evolved, beginning about 4 billion years ago, and that the creation myth of Genesis can’t be true."
Jerry Coyne, Commenting on BioLogos/Francis Collins: A site given to theistic evolution)
http://richarddawkins.net/articles/485753-biologos-don%E2%80%99t-tell-people-that-genesis-is-fiction
Science is non-dogmatic.
Nothing in the scientific enterprise or literature requires belief. To ask someone to accept ideas purely on faith, even when these ideas are expressed by “experts,” is unscientific. While science must make some assumptions, such as the idea that we can trust our senses, explanations and conclusions are accepted only to the degree that they are well founded and continue to stand up to scrutiny.
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/nature/IIcharacteristics2.shtml
Kirk note: the claim that science is non-dogmatic stikes critics of macro evolution as ironic....
It is vital for the health of science that dissenters have the opportunity to probe, to question and to challenge the theoretical framework of the science relevant to their case, and to test all theories by reference to empirical data. http://www.arn.org/blogs/index.php/literature/2010/07/05/portraits_of_dissent
The role of humility in science. (Phillip Johnson)
http://www.leaderu.com/real/ri9602/johnson.html
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