Jake over at Pure Pedantry has a lost post titled Why Pairing Science and Atheism is High-Brow. It is a very nice little essay, and I enjoyed the historical perspective brought into the discussion by quotations from a John Dewey article from TNR of the 1920s. Anyway, there's nothing new, but the subtlety of exposition is worth a look.
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