Scientific American

I still subscribe to Scientific American, the oldest magazine in America.  Fairly often it has articles covering the war on science that has been conducted by religions, especially Christianity, since their inception since religious explanations of natural phenomena are invariably refuted by empirical data as the data are revealed by scientific study.

Hardly anyone is now so stupid as to believe that the sun revolves around the earth, but Galileo was taken into the holy dungeons of the Roman Catholic Church and shown the blessed instruments of torture that would used on him if he failed to recant his heretical belief that that the earth revolved around the sun, in direct conflict with the Holy Bible.

Most Christian denominations have given up on this front, but many are still very active in fighting against evolution.  Scientific American has devoted numerous articles and most of an entire issue to demolishing the Intelligent Design attack on evolution, and the churches have given up in their attempts to force the teaching of Intelligent Design instead of evolution in our public schools, but they have fallen back on an approach of trying to get ID taught in the schools as an equal alternative to evolution.

They'll never give up.  Think not?  Well, until the Spring of 2010 the Texas School Board was led by a Young Earth Creationist, which would be laughable if it weren't so tragic.  And there are plenty of Christians who still argue that their infallible Bible makes it clear that the Earth is the center of the universe.

In the September 2010 issue of Scientific American Lawrence Krauss discusses the misuse of quantum mechanics by the religious, which i will not try to summarize, but i do have to quote one line.  He writes:  "I expect organized religion to continue to be a part of the cultural landscape, too, largely unaffected by the ongoing march of human knowledge, as it has been for centuries."