When Cosmologies Collide

Judith Shulevitz in The New York Times

Could something as trivial as scientists' lack of self-awareness help explain why, nearly 150 years after Darwin, creationism in its various forms has become the most popular critique of science? Well, consider how scientists tend to respond to the attack on evolution. Rather than trying to understand creationism as a culturally meaningful phenomenon -- as, say, a peculiarly American objection to the way elites talk about evolution -- they generally approach it as a set of ludicrous claims easily dismantled by science.