Dawkins Talking Atheism in a Public School?

[glipsnort (Steve Schaffner)]

@Patrick

I am sorry Steve, you may be in the middle of a whimsical conversation about the Church of the Giant Spaghetti Monster.

I’m trying to be in conversation with you about the statements you’ve been making.

@Patrick

To be clear, science has no evidence of anything metaphysical in our physical universe.

I don’t even know what that sentence means. Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the fundamental nature of reality, so what does it mean to have no evidence of anything metaphysical? More to the point, what scientific evidence tells us whether or not a divinity is needed for the operation of natural processes? How is that even a scientific question?

@Patrick

Also regarding science teachers in secular schools bringing God to the classroom that is something that still sometimes happens and we go after it hard, although we try to protect the teachers if it was just an innocent mistake.

Let me try once more: Why should Dawkins be mentioning God at all in a class on evolution?