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To: Solon who wrote (13630)	2/12/2011 12:23:14 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

I was contemplating the stork theory example. If the doctor believes that the stork is a part of the reproductive chain (when not busily delivering Vlasic pickles, of course) that has no effect on his technical ability to perform eye surgery. I would evaluate an eye surgeon on his technical merit exclusively, since his storkism stays outside the OR. Now if that doctor worked in obstetrics, I'd want to keep a close eye on him. For Dawkins to say that it is relevant to whom we want teaching us, I see that as a thinly-veiled way of saying "I don't like his attitude. That's why I don't want to be his customer." That's fine for Dawkins, but when he expands it to "That's why any scientist should not want to be a customer", that is fractured logic serving naked prejudice. It's the question of whether or not we accept the concept of nonoverlapping magisteria. By accepting evolution and an old earth, Gaskell has guaranteed that he's not a hardcore infallible-Bible sort. Has he also said thing one about using his hoped-for position to discuss issues of faith? That is a crucial question imo. If he hasn't said that he would, it is not fair to him to present him with a real job rejection based on elementally simian "you're not in the club" behavior. That's what I see Dawkins doing - claiming that an irrelevancy is relevant. There are a great many practicing MDs who believe in the irrational - UFOs, astrology, chi energy. This has zero effect on their value as a health-care contractor, which is the capacity in which I hire a doctor. I have the right to not hire a doctor whom I do not like for a subjective reason. A corporate practice or university department is held to a higher standard. Tangent: I would certainly hope that you discriminate in how you like to get your wiener hot. (giggling, ducking)