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RE: Blaming Religion?
By Gondorff on 2/24/2008 2:15:10 PM , Rating: 2
Ok... instead of putting the focus back on religion, let's instead look at what the poster above was actually saying.

Namely, that the blame that is put on the religious in this article is completely unwarranted given the lack of any study on the matter. All the quotes from the source article merely show the researcher's belief that religion is the cause of the dissent. Also, he asserts with no backing information that lack of understanding is not the problem, but religious mores are. This is simply one man's biased ramblings, and it is all very unscientific.

In addition, I find it rather unsettling how various news media have portrayed this article, with titles that state as fact "Religion colors Americans' views of nanotechnology" when there is no evidence that shows this. Only a biased man's convictions.

In truth, I do realize that the religious right does hold some uneducated views about science, and I often have to defend myself against such claims being applied to me personally, as I take a much different approach to science than other Christians (though, people please note: the Catholic Church takes science very seriously -- and don't go all Galileo on me, that was hundreds of years ago; I'm talking about today). However, when I end up being victimized by a "scientific" article that doesn't even have any facts and figures to back up its ad hominem attacks on all of religion, then it gets pretty annoying. This is a shoddy job of scientific research and journalism for many involved.

[Please note: I realize that this article is a blog post on DT, which is what it belongs as. I have no problem with the journalism here; however, the articles cited were not blog posts, and to that I take offense.]

