Sublime

A study by the non-evangelical group Jewish and Community Research asked 1,200 college and university professors if they had “unfavorable feelings” toward various religions.[51] Less than one in four college and university professors have negative feelings toward Muslims, but a majority of them have negative feelings toward evangelical Christians.

In science, progress is possible. In fact, if one believes in Bayes’s theorem, scientific progress is inevitable as predictions are made and as beliefs are tested and refined.* The march toward scientific progress is not always straightforward, and some well-regarded (even “consensus”) theories are later proved wrong—but either way science tends to

And then Robert Moses, who had spent four years of his life arguing that personal considerations such as friendship should never be allowed to influence civil service appointments and that no civil servants should be exempt from competitive examinations, worked quietly through Smith’s office to exempt his friends from civil service examinations. An

The problem with Jones, then, isn’t that he was simply perceived as a con man or a lunatic. The problem was that he does a phenomenal job discrediting the evangelical left as legitimate and moral, and this is something that the Cathedral cannot bear.

Continuously challenging.