The Institution Of Science Is Going To Keep Losing Prestige

Richard Dawkins holds the Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He has chimed in on the Myers affair:

Readers of yesterday's thread "It's a Goddamned Cracker" will be aware of somebody called Bill Donohue, whose grasp of reality is so poor that he can't tell the difference between a wafer and Jesus. The shrieking hysteria of Donohue and other Roman Catholics over the temporary removal of a communion wafer from a church service epitomizes all that is ridiculous in the religious mind.

Now, how can institutional science hold forth this guy as one of its greatest spokesman, and then claim that its far-from-settled "theories" of origins are no threat to religion, and that it is free from metaphysical/religious bias when it evaluate scientific evidence? This sham is wearing mighty thin, and the Myers debacle has certainly accelerated the process. The proposition that only theists bring a bias to their science is now completely anti-empirical, and absurd in the extreme. Just how stupid do the Science! poindexters think the rest of us are?