Speaking of Accommodationism and New Atheism and stuff, check out this 10 year old discussion:
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Greg Laden suggests A multiplicity of strategies is better than infighting when addressing creationism and related problems.
John Pieret reads Jerry Coyne so you don't have to, and catches Jerry Coyne rewriting history.
Not to delve into the accommodationism wars again, but this claim is just silly.
The advocates of accommodationism and apologetics at Biologos have a new article up claiming that scientists ought not to advocate for science — we're supposed to emphasize uncertainty.
Meh. I did not like all that much what Dr. Scott said then. There was too much accommodation in her talk.
Assumptions are taken on faith?
No. We make assumptions knowingly, and we can always go back to reexamine them.
Remember this old one? "Assume a spherical cow." That's not faith. That's an assumption.