Jerry Coyne is looking at the AAAS and Templeton influence again, via the AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion, chummily known as DoSER. Check out that website. The bullshit starts with the first sentence on the page.
AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) facilitates communication between scientific and religious communities.
See, that’s deceptive already. It’s sugar. Who could possibly object to “communication between scientific and religious communities”? No one! That just means sciencey people and religious people talking and maybe throwing picnics together. But that’s far from all that DoSER is about. [Read more…]