{"id":3811,"date":"2009-06-26T08:48:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T08:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/26\/on-accommodationism\/"},"modified":"2009-06-26T08:48:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T08:48:46","slug":"on-accommodationism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/26\/on-accommodationism\/","title":{"rendered":"On Accommodationism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Mooney has an explanation of the “accommodationist” position<\/a> that deserves better than to be buried in a Links Dump:<\/p>\n

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I don’t see a need to pry into how each individual is dealing with these complicated and personal matters of constructing a coherent worldview. Rather, from a political and public perspective, I want them all to integrate modern science into that worldview. And, from a civil libertarian perspective, I don’t want their religion telling me what to do. (Especially interfering with my access to alcohol on Sundays!)<\/p>\n

Insofar as I’m an accommodationist, then, it’s not because I don’t see the incongruity between relying on faith, and looking for evidence, as bases for knowing. Rather, it’s because I know that many very intelligent people are struggling all the time to make their peace with this incongruity in their own way-a peace that works for them. And so long as they’re not messing with what our kids learn-or, again, trying to ram their views down our throats-then good on ’em.<\/p>\n

We need to encourage people to make a peace between religion and science that meets their personal needs without turning them into enemies of science or, essentially, theocrats.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(Emphasis in original.)<\/p>\n

I really don’t have anything to add to that. Josh Rosenau does<\/a>, though, and his refresher on the history of the Scopes Monkey Trial<\/a> is also worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Mooney has an explanation of the “accommodationist” position that deserves better than to be buried in a Links Dump: I don’t see a need to pry into how each individual is dealing with these complicated and personal matters of constructing a coherent worldview. Rather, from a political and public perspective, I want them all… Continue reading On Accommodationism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,28,30,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-politics","category-religion","category-war_on_science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}