Inflammatory Rhetoric, Away!

Everyone’s linking to edge.com’s Annual Question for 2008, so I figure I might as well jump on the bandwagon. The question this year is “What have you changed your mind about [in 2007]? Why?” Of particular interest for godless liberals like myself is Clay Shirky’s answer: Saying that the mental lives of a Francis Collins or a Freeman Dyson prove that religion and science are compatible is like saying that the sex lives of Bill Clinton or Ted Haggard prove that marriage and adultery are compatible. Read more