Debbs McKown wrote an essay in 1984 which was later published in F. D. White & S. J. Billings (Eds.),
The Well-crafted Argument: A Guide and a Reader (pp. 587-591). New York: Houghton Mifflin. Professor of philosophy McKown’s main purpose is to warn about a future constitutional conflict between science and religion. As professor of philosophy, he marshals his philosophical training to try proving his premise. Since the Founding Fathers designed an
“utterly secular Constitution,” (p. 586) he asserts, they did not provide enough safeguard for the free practice and advance of science. Furthermore, because science opposes Christianity’s religious myths, there is peril that technology “would, one day… be endangered by it” (p. 586). The author goes on to describe religion’s threat to science and chastises
Stephen Jay Gould for believing that
“science and religion, properly understood, do not conflict” (p. 587). Especially since American fundamentalism’s
“blood is boiling at present” (p. 587). McKown also asserts that
“creationism...
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