Some got it some are still lost

Reading this article in NYT made me happy and annoyed. The initial answer of Herbert A. Hauptman was right on the nose! Dr. Weinberg's remarks where also sharp, but this was just picture perfect:

But Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary theorist at Oxford, said that even scientists who were believers did not claim evidence for that belief. "The most they will claim is that there is no evidence against," Dr. Dawkins said, "which is pathetically weak. There is no evidence against all sorts of things, but we don't waste our time believing in them."

Damn the British have a great way of putting things! The other scientists who profess basically show themselves weak when it comes to personal conviction and so take the easy path of a prepackaged belief system based on myths and magic. But the fact that the National Academy of Science has a profession rate of about 10% is encouraging. Two-hundred years ago it would have been much worse, so as the general public's intelligence catches up with the top (not just scientist, since there are plently of intelligent non-scientists) we'll all be better off.

Note: For intelligence I mean: the ability to make logical conclusions form logical reasoning.