Reply #10: Notice how Mooney sabotages his own argument

[muriel_volestrangler]

"Broadly speaking, scientific illiteracy is the cause of 20 years of gridlock on the global-warming issue"; OK, I can see that reasoning. But "the New Atheists" only published their books in the past 5 years or so; and illiteracy is due to bas schooling, so the problem goes back even further than 20 years. So clearly, the scientific illiteracy has nothing to do with New Atheists driving anyone to fundamentalism, or alientating believers who will listen to science for policy matters so that they give up trying to persuade the fundamentalists.

Keeping quiet about the absurdities of religion wasn't getting society anywhere. Why go back to the failing strategy?