… Watson assumes that because a group of smart, respected, insightful people thought and felt their way out of believing in God, everyone else should, too. Because intellectual history trends toward non-belief, human history must, too. … Watson implies that full engagement with the project of being human in the modern world leads to atheism, and that's just not true.
No kidding. I am supposed to believe that Francis Collins, Owen Gingerich, and John Polkinghorne are somehow less fully engaged with the project of being human than a churl like Jerry Coyne. Watson's history must be selective indeed.
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