The Good Atheist

It’s a shame I have to report on this, since I am generally a fan of the magazine. However, the publication recently pulled an article from it’s site due to a complaint, and so I feel compelled to say something about it. The article in question was a simple piece: how to spot a creationist agenda. It was summarily pulled due to complaints, made supposedly by the very creationists the article was trying to expose.

P.Z Myers has a good point in saying that if the same had been done for a pro-creationist article, there would have been a huge backlash from the religious right complaining about their right to free speech. It’s apparently only a one way street for these guys. You cannot continue to play by their rules; they will cheat, lie and manipulate to get their way. They have no choice: they believed that evolution is the greatest threat their religion has ever faced.

If you want to read the full article, it’s up here. Personally I find it rather innocuous and harmless. If I had written it, I wouldn’t have been as kind. Proponents of Intelligent Design are science saboteurs, who would gladly tear apart all of the progress we’ve made in favor of the facile and puerile idea that their “daddy in the sky” did it. What New Scientist has failed to see is that war has already been declared, and they keep giving these guys the high ground.