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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Physicist Criticizes Biologist Over Anti-Religious "Fundamentalism"

Peter Higgs, known for theorizing the recently discovered boson which carries his name, has criticized biologist Richard Dawkins over Dawkins' approach to dealing with religious believers.

What  may motivate Dawkins is that the central paradigm of his science is evolution, and many religious leaders promote that evolution isn't true. There isn't much religious objection to physics, so Higgs hasn't had to deal with the same problems that Dawkins has.

I'm fundamentally (pun intended) with Dawkins.  Higgs offers no reason not to be other than others in his field are religious.  That's not a good reason.

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