A group of scientists has issued a declaration in support of science and secularism:
Concerned that the voice of science and secularism is growing ever fainter in the White House, on Capitol Hill and in culture, a group of prominent scientists and advocates of strict church-state separation yesterday announced formation of a Washington think tank designed to promote “rationalism” as the basis of public policy.
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“In the current climate there is an implicit, if demonstrably false, sense that if your actions are based on a belief in God you are good person, and if they are not you are a bad person,” [Laurence M.] Krauss [an author and theoretical physicist at Case Western Reserve University]said. “We should be very concerned that our political system reinforces the notion that the more you pray for guidance, the better suited you are to govern.”
Or, as the Washington Post headline put it “Think Tank Will Promote Thinking”
