[News] Creationists declare war over the brain

[Moontanman]

"YOU cannot overestimate," thundered psychiatrist Jeffrey Schwartz, "how threatened the scientific establishment is by the fact that it now looks like the materialist paradigm is genuinely breaking down. You're gonna hear a lot in the next calendar year about... how Darwin's explanation of how human intelligence arose is the only scientific way of doing it... I'm asking us as a world community to go out there and tell the scientific establishment, enough is enough! Materialism needs to start fading away and non-materialist causation needs to be understood as part of natural reality."

 

Creationists declare war over the brain - opinion - 22 October 2008 - New Scientist

[pgrmdave]

This worries me more than nearly anything else. The lack of understanding of basic principles, and the intense desire people seem to have for a god of the gaps is a serious problem.