From ANDRE BEESON
Many practising scientists must have been angered by John Habgood’s
comments. Were he a regular reader of New Scientist he would know that in
it is plenty ‘of place for the human subject’ (and other animals) and that
many articles show full awareness of the ‘moral limitations’ of the applications
of science. All of this without a mention of God.
What Habgood omits to mention is that the established religions have
always challenged both scientific and human progress. I agree with him on
one point. The religions of other are ‘in my view suspect – forms of irrationalism.’
That is precisely why some of us are not religious.
Andre Beeson London
