Hurrah for Lord Winston

Uncle Arthur noted that recently Lord Winston gently chastised Richard Dawkins for his aggressive and puerile attitude to faith.

See the link below for the piece in this Wednesday's Guardian written in anticipation of a public lecture at the University of Dundee. Surely, we can foster a more mature attitude to science and evolution without ridicule and caricature. This distorted and sometimes narrow discourse propagated by some secular biologists' also has parallels with the sometimes warped discourse in contemporary politics. Perhaps Dawkins and Jeremy Paxman both fit the cynical post-modern age where deconstruction rules and makes great entertainment.

Lord Winston's contribution will hopefully give hope that the paramaters of the debate can change and the real inter-relationship between faith and science can be established. This should be a healthy and invigorating linkage not a catalyst for culture wars.

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,2064899,00.html