re: #421 Political Atheist

I made a fairly informal point, had a link to show where I might have gotten the thought. It’s not a complicated or subtle point.

You didn’t make any point that I can tell that had anything to do with what Tyson said, since Tyson wasn’t attempting to talk about the amount of religiosity among all scientists, but among the Academy.

I don’t really see the importance of the distinction you make as contravening my statement at all. There was that “maybe” caveat after all.

No clue what distinction you’re talking about, or what statement of yours you’re talking about, for that matter.

This seems to be applying a far more formal standard to a rather casual point than seems appropriate. You may think it makes no sense. Perhaps my point makes sense to most.

WHat you said was this:

There are more available to ask than he might have thought.

There are not more than 15% of those with faith in the Academy, which is what he was talking about. He wasn’t talking about the broader scientific population. You’re wrong, if you’re talking about what he was talking about. If you weren’t talking about the Academy, then you weren’t talking about what he was talking about.

You really seemed to grab the wrong end of this conversation and think that somehow I, or Tyson was implying that faith interfered with science, when that wasn’t the case at all. It’s difficult to interpret your posts any other way.