A Response To A Response

Bob Schwartz responds to my post of yesterday:

Maybe you missed the sarcasm of my post. While I believe that determining when life begins could end the debate, the science that would go into making that determination would never be accepted by many. To these folks science never trumps their belief system no matter what the evidence to the contrary might be.

See Bob's original post here.

I get Bob's point.  As I just emailed Bob, a plague on fundamentalists of all stripes; those who won't question their religious beliefs and those who won't question science.  Scientism is also a fundamentalism. 

There are many things science can teach me.  Who I am is not one of them.  See the Walker Percy video I posted a couple days ago.  If I had to choose between the scientists on one side against the theologians and poets on the other, I'd choose the theologians and poets.  Luckily I don't need to make such a choice.