EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson: There’s ‘not a clean-cut division’ between religion and science.»

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/08/johnson-science-faith/

EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson: There’s ‘not a clean-cut division’ between religion and science.»


A Philadelphia Inquirer profile of EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson this weekend reveals that the chief steward of our environmental protection is unwilling — or unable — to separate religion from science. The Wonk Room’s Brad Johnson notes that, when questioned by reporters, Stephen Johnson admitted he does not see a “clean-cut division” between the two:

It’s not a clean-cut division. If you have studied at all creationism vs. evolution, there’s theistic or God-controlled evolution and there’s variations on all those themes.

Johnson’s approach at EPA has been marked by putting his faith in corporate polluters. This past summer, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) called on him to resign. Read more at the Wonk Room.


Update: In an interview with ABC’s Nightline that will air tonight, President Bush expresses a similar sentiment as Stephen Johnson:


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http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/08/johnson-science-faith/

[malaise]

1. Would someone anyone

banish these ignorant morans.

[aquart]

2. Make him go away.

Tell him God needs him in Heaven.

[baldguy]

3. Science has to be supported by facts.

With religion, facts get in the way.

[sendero]

4. It's "clean-cut"...

... you moron. "clear-cut" is what idiots like you want to do to all our forests.

[Xipe Totec]

5. Another skewed shaft, from the Creationist's quiver of quibbles n/t

[Jim Sagle]

6. Hey Steve, it's called methodology. Check into it.

[Historic NY]

7. so he prays for the end of pollution..he must have great faith in man or he is just batshit crazy

[kimmylavin]

8. Oh, my head.

Faith, by very definition, exists in the absence of proof.
Science is all about proof, evidence, facts.

There cannot possibly be a better example of division.