It’s not religion that poses a threat to science, but rather equalitarian ideology. And yet, because many scientists are equalitarians, they remain silent about it:
One of the world’s most eminent scientists was embroiled in an extraordinary row last night after he claimed that black people were less intelligent than white people and the idea that “equal powers of reason” were shared across racial groups was a delusion.
James Watson, a Nobel Prize winner for his part in the unravelling of DNA who now runs one of America’s leading scientific research institutions, drew widespread condemnation for comments he made ahead of his arrival in Britain today for a speaking tour at venues including the Science Museum in London.
The 79-year-old geneticist reopened the explosive debate about race and science in a newspaper interview in which he said Western policies towards African countries were wrongly based on an assumption that black people were as clever as their white counterparts when “testing” suggested the contrary. He claimed genes responsible for creating differences in human intelligence could be found within a decade….
Anti-racism campaigners called for Dr Watson’s remarks to be looked at in the context of racial hatred laws. A spokesman for the 1990 Trust, a black human rights group, said: “It is astonishing that a man of such distinction should make comments that seem to perpetuate racism in this way. It amounts to fuelling bigotry and we would like it to be looked at for grounds of legal complaint.”
It is interesting how ostensibly scientific issues are increasingly being settled in the courts, as recent examples include evolution, global warming and now human intelligence. Naturally, atheist scientists haven’t made a peep about this, preferring instead to get their panties in a bunch about a non-existent threat from religion.
Speaking of which, I’ve yet to hear anyone make a coherent case for how religion currently threatens any of the three aspects of science.