Attacking Science

CONTRARY TO STANDARD CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVE MYTHOLOGY, science, not religion, is under attack. There is still a church on every corner, and folks are still free to attend. Defending secular society against religious encroachment, trying to keep religion out of our public institutions, is a defense action, not an attack. Religion is destroying itself, as church membership shrinks across Europe and the United States, confronted with scientific, factual reality, its own outdated doctrines, and the rising tide of less religious millennials. The difference between science and religion is that science incessantly seeks to improve itself itself and increase human understanding of nature; religion remains mired in rigid, anachronistic dogma, derived from far more primitive, less enlightened times gone by. The Bible says that the world is flat, and the bible is wrong. Science would be incapable of assuring us of the reality of human made climate change, for example, without the exhaustive research and redundant independent verification inherent in the scientific method.Religion, meanwhile, offers only fantastic, unreasonable doctrines rooted in nothing but superstitious fantasy, promulgated by tyrannical unreasoning authorities ,concerned primarily with the perpetuation of their own status. religion is demonstrably false. Science advances human happiness and prosperity; religion fosters fear, ignorance, and intellectual stagnation. And yet, science is under attack by people who fear its ability to supplant their own deeply held, comfortable superstition with a better, more accurate description of the universe. Those who deny climate change, who strive to inject creationism into public education, who deny evolution, and who question the of modern medical treatments, such as vaccines, are the attack dogs of darkness, are truly dangerous and destructive of human progress, and will do the world a great favor when they quietly vanish from public discourse.