Being a scientist does not make you immune to magical thinking. It just gives you better bullshit to pile on top of your religious views to disguise them as science. Once, on a job interview, I ended up talking to a senior faculty member who was convinced that evolution was statistically impossible. "10^30 molecules won't randomly arrange themselves into a whale in less than the age of the universe," was his Big Clever Argument, IIRC.
And that's one of the attractions of stuff like Intelligent Design. It lets scientists and those in science-related fields accept their own specialities as true but still ignore the evidence for evolution.
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Date: 2005-06-14 08:58 pm (UTC)And that's one of the attractions of stuff like Intelligent Design. It lets scientists and those in science-related fields accept their own specialities as true but still ignore the evidence for evolution.