Facts take a back seat to feelings.
By the way, that quote of Lewontin you posted doesn't say what you say it does. And Moray hasn't insulted you in that post. He posted facts, showed how far off you are from those facts, and wrote what he suggested as remedy to being so far off.
It may very well not say that, was quoting what I read on Richard Dawkins. net:
28. Polling Data on Science and Religion
Comment #67102 by devolved on September 2, 2007 at 12:29 am
1. Some scientists start with the belief that only the natural world exists.
No scientist does that.
How could you possibly make such an assertion about the beliefs of all scientists? It's patently wrong.
For example look at this admission:
'We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism.
It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door."
Source: Richard Lewontin, Billions and billions of demons, The New York Review, p. 31, 9 January 1997.
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