REACTION AND COUNTER REACTION

In the beginning, the elohim created skies and earth .

Welcome back .  Let's think about the history of the warfare between science and religion.

I was thinking today how fundamentalism was a reaction to the Enlightenment in general and Darwin in particular.  For decades no one has taken fundamentalists seriously as they started their own private schools and universities, teaching their own version of science and history.  

Over time their political clout has grown and their world view, which is too absurd to bear up against science, has sought credence as a viable explanation of the nature of reality based on 1st Amendment protections.  

I think we are finally seeing a counter reaction of the scientific community to fundamentalism.  For one thing, public scientists like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye are clearly responding to flaws in fundamentalist explanations with more accessible and well animated scientific explanations.  COSMOS has been outstanding in the way it compares flaws with facts.  

What fundamentalists , and evangelicals , for the latter are nicer, more hipster versions of the former promise about the past, present , and future is becoming less credible as years pass.  Rather, a synthesis of modern science and progressive religion is emerging.  Fundamentalists are becoming quaint like psychics and astrologers.

While science is becoming the truth.

Blessings...