Bush's Environmental Chief: There's "Not A Clean-Cut Division" Between Religion And Science

Think Progress:

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.

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Comments

[bubbuh]

Oh, Sweet J*sus, Fire His Arse! Save us all!

[Moderate Man805]

Sure there is a connection, God gave us this beautiful universe to study

[HumeSkeptic]

Prove it.

[lisakaz2]

I'd accept it IF by "studying" the scientific method still mattered vs. praying away pollution and the "who cares; the end is near" bs.

[djk37]

Ditto.

[samiam4285]

There is a difference between believing in God and allowing your belief to prevent objective, rational, scientific thought.

[wndrwrthg]

"We are a fluke of the universe".

[BlackWidowPilot]

Stephen Johnson is living proof that *Australopithicines* are not extinct... and found mainly in the ranks of the GOP...

Arrested evolutionary development, thy name remains GOP.

Yeeeach.

Would you like a banana, Mr. Johnson?

Leland R. Erickson

Citizen

[HumeSkeptic]

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
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We are lucky to have survived another Dark Age. Just a few more days to Jan 20, 2009.
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[Cyano]

"Stephen Johnson admitted he does not see a "clean-cut division" between [religion and science]"

Sure there is... religion is made up (which is why there are so many and they don't agree) and science isn't. Duh!

[BowlingForRevenge]

Probably doesn't see a clear cut division between
men and women, men and monkeys, men and sheep ...

[lisakaz2]

They see a diff in men vs. women. Men give the orders acc. to these dinosaurs.

[starboymikey]

Anyone remember a guy named James Watt, the EPA Secretary during part of the Reagan administration. Watt was another fundamentalist nitwit who believed that we were living in "the last days" and that God would be oh so mad at us if we didn't use up all the forests and other natural resoures before Jesus returned, which was going to happen any day now ... "any day" being about thirty years ago.

Watt tried to gut virtually ever single environmental protection guideline that existed, apparently at the behest of God, who wanted all those messy trees and other living things out of the way so that Jesus could sweep the deck clean for the rapture.

Watt also believed there was no clear line between science and religion.

[HumeSkeptic]

I remember him. I think he was the one who taught Reagan that trees caused more pollution than cars.

[lisakaz2]

Nitwit is is pretty mild. I think he was to pollution what Gordon Gekko was to capitalism.

[DannyEastVillage]

yeh i remember that a**hole very well.

has anybody noticed--why hasn't everybody noticed--that only REPUBLICANS put garbage like this in public office--to all of our peril.

[MyTake]

Well, don't you remember the famous Reagan ALIEN speech. Well those ALIEN'S sent Bush an email just before he appointed this guy. Bush has been on the bottle ever since.

[johnnynyc]

The next time religion gets us to the moon and back, the next time religion pilots a spacecraft through the universe and onto the surface of mars I'll agree there's no clean cut division between religion and science.

The observations and calculations that allowed us to predict how the universe works aren't much different
than those that allow us to read the fossil record.

Creationism is a belief for which there is no proof, evolution is a fact drawn from observing the world around us.

[Village]

He must get apples and oranges confused too.

[chewie2008]

Thsi is the same mindset that brought us"There`s a clean cut division between global warming and the greenhouse effect."

[cdnnewsjunky]

Ya, and there is not a clean cut division between insanity and religious thought!

[samiam4285]

At this point, I am counting down the minutes until Jan 20. Right there, that is everything that is wrong with this administration. The war on science is over in T-42 days, 3 hours, and about 40 minutes.

[AtheistUS]

And why we had idiot in so high government position? Because millions voted for another idiot, twice. And why they voted so, giving opportunity to a few wealthy families to profit enormously in robbery of US (and Iraq too)? Yes, of course, they voted so because of their religious views and luck of education.

[palinater08]

This is the same thinking that has created a Middle East that is intolerant of science and progressive ideology that enhances a better world. Think about why the region has never advanced technologically...all the new technology that exists there today is certainly not native. This is exactly why a separation is needed unless we want a digression in the human race.

[DannyEastVillage]

and yet it was arab culture that gave us the higher mathematics, architecture, algebra, astronomy and more The "christians" drove all that out of Europe with the driving back of the Ottoman Empire and the crusades. And THAT, my dears, is why the Middle Ages were a time of dearth of learning in Europe except in the monasteries where some of the monks had enough sense to preserve the libraries of the Ottoman Turks so that the learning that had been amassed in that culture was not entirely lost. If it had not been for the preservation of those libraries, the great cathedrals of medieval Europe could not have been built.

[AtheistUS]

...let me add that now our christian religious extremists destroyed Iraq National Museum and most libraries. Treasures in which any clay piece is more precious than a clay head of our son of a president.
Paul Bremer, Peter McPherson and John Agresto wanted to erase Iraq culture as inferior and replace it with our pop culture, not even knowing that Iraq before sanctions had highest literacy rates in the region - and higher than in some our US states.