Freethinker Sunday Sermonette: the break up

Breaking up is hard to do. We all know that. Once science and religion got along. They even thought they could make a go of it. But let's face it, they lived in different worlds. It just wasn't to be. It's probably better for the children:

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Given my post yesterday about how increased scanning finds more disease that may or may not ever cause problems (and, don't worry, the promised followup post is coming, either tomorrow or Thursday
Intellectuals, I have had it with your crap. I have had it with your Laputan thinking and your Utopian fantasies. I have had it with the assumption that people who do not instantaneously agree with you are somehow mentally deficient.
I've always understood why the very rich would favor economic ideologies that support their self-interest. What I've never quite understood is why so many people who aren't Galtian overlords buy that crap.
Alex Palazzo managed to piss off some people with his taxonomy of biomedical disciplines.

Massachusetts Humanities is presenting a day long symposium about religion in American public life. Link to info at my name.