The Battle to defend science and reason

The battle to defend science and reason against religious dogma is far from over.

Take, for example, Bush’s anti-science and hypocritical vetoing of the expansion of Federal funding for embryonic stem cell research – funding that is supported by a majority of the American people. Take the Roman Catholic Church’s meddling in the EU decision on European funding for embryonic stem cell research. Take the failed attempt by the Vatican to impose a Christian religious statement in the (now rejected) draft Constitution for Europe (here). The religious right is united in its desire to impose its morality and its thinking on the rest of us.

There is no doubt that the Bible Belt fundamentalists and the Vatican, in spite of their mutual hatred, are beginning to share a common objective which is to undo the freedom of the Enlightenment and to return the West to a neo-mediaeval condition of clerical control.