Writes Brian Dunaway:

More news from the front: The Death of Science.

Of course, Dawkins already earned the ire of the zeitgeist for what he said last Easter Sunday, “I do think that we are a culturally Christian country, I call myself a cultural Christian. I’m not a believer, but there is a distinction between being a believing Christian and being a cultural Christian. I love hymns and Christmas carols. I sort of feel at home in the Christian ethos. I feel that we are a Christian country.”

Perhaps Dr. Dawkins even realizes that so-called modern science wouldn’t even exist on this planet without its basis in, and inspiration by, Christian philosophy (Christian ontology and epistemology, for starters), ecclesiastical leadership and structure (the university system primarily evolved from the monastic system), and Christian society in general.

A mere few years ago it would have been unthinkable that there should be a cult of DNA deniers, working on many fronts, who apparently believe that gene expression can be simply thought away, or chemically suppressed, or surgically excised.

But that there should exist not just a cult, but a cult that runs the show?! I hope that no one waits for a soul apart from themselves to come to the rescue. It will require the fortitude of every one of us to thwart the nascent Dark Age. It will also require communing with very unexpected fellow-travelers.