Science faces 'dangerous times'

Science faces 'dangerous times'
By Helen Briggs
BBC News science reporter

Fundamentalism is hampering global efforts to tackle climate change, according to Britain's top scientist.

In his final speech as president of the Royal Society, Lord May of Oxford will say scientists must speak out against the climate change "denial lobby".

He will warn core scientific values are "under serious threat from resurgent fundamentalism, West and East".


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Another danger to the enlightenment of science came from the growing network of fundamentalist and lobby groups in the US that campaigned for creationism to be taught in science classes, he added.

"By their own writings, this group has a much wider agenda which is to replace scientific materialism by something more based on faith," he said...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4482174.stm

1,500 years of what we now refer to as the Dark Ages.
How many people did the church torture and kill for stating an obvious reality?