Creationist Beliefs in Europe

Il y a une lettre publiée dans le dernier Science dont le titre a attiré mon intention.

A recent News of the Week story (“Creationist beliefs persist in Europe,” A. Curry, 27 February, p. 1159) referred to a lack of regionwide studies on creationist beliefs in Europe, while ignoring most of the European research project BIOHEAD-Citizen (Biology, Health, and Environmental Education for Better Citizenship CIT2-CT-2004-506015, 2004–2008). This project involved data collection from 7050 teachers in 19 countries, 13 of which were in Europe (1).

1. P. Clément, M. P. Quessada, Nat. Sci. Soc. 16, 154 (2008).

God and Science Don’t Mix

Perhaps the most important contribution an honest assessment of the incompatibility between science and religious doctrine can provide is to make it starkly clear that in human affairs — as well as in the rest of the physical world — reason is the better guide.Lawrence M. Krauss, The Wall Street Journal.

Strident Negativity

Le troll à la poubelle

Jeannot, mon troll que j’avais, viens d’accéder à la liste noire qui pointe les spams (et les p’tits cons) vers les spams…
Je pensais vous filer nom, prénom, e-mail, adresse et vue arienne du domicile, mais il trouve ça “un chouïa stalininien [sic]” ! Donc, poubelle

Vincent Fleury On Origin Of Form (And PZ Myers) by Suzan Mazur

[update]King of all science media! Or, craigslist for crackpots?
Bon, il tire plus vite que son ombre PZ Myers. [/update]

Quand Suzan Mazur téléphone à Vincent Fleury.

Vincent Fleury:

[...]

Maybe there’s some kind of nervous breakdown among scientists, especially with a significant number of biologists who are exhausted and truly don’t understand what they are doing. Some of them wonder whether it’s science at all. They keep piling up facts about genes and chemicals but don’t have a satisfactory scheme.

Vincent Fleury:

Someone else sent the paper in to harass me. Myers says implicitly that he despises all these self-organization ideas, but if you look at his blog, his web site is a an example of self-organization.

Now, I’m the someone else and the aim was to harass Fleury’s theory, not Fleury himself. But he identifies himself with his theory so everything against it he takes as a personal insult. At least he present it as a personal insult when he found himself unable to directly answer simple questions. He shouldn’t.

More on this interview during the WE.