It has been said before, but it needs saying again. Scientific fundamentalism is no different from Islamist and Christianist fundamentalism. It is equally intolerant and an equal betrayal of the great institution from which it springs. We are, therefore, in the midst of The Endarkenment, an assault on reason by those who claim to be its greatest defenders.
This post is outstanding even for Bryan. (By the way, I have read Understanding the Present and it is superb.)
I might add that when Prof. Higgins talks about a "special creation" of human beings he seems to be thinking in Biblical literalist terms - God sculpts a human out of mud and breathes a soul into him. I don't think that literally happened in some garden long ago, either. But what that story tries to convey by means of metaphor could well be true - though I think understanding that involves a sort of knowledge different from scientific knowledge.
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