Remembering Our First Principles | Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! It has been a very busy past few weeks, beginning with CSICon 2023 in Las Vegas and followed by a series of engagements with Richard Dawkins throughout the West Coast. I had the honor of introducing Richard for his keynote presentation at CSICon; I shared some of the history of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science and its two-fold mission: teaching the value of science and advancing secularism. It was a welcome opportunity to reflect on the importance of those paired objectives, especially since the past few weeks have also seen a series of surveys released that show just how vital those objectives remain here in the United States. We’ll look at new polling data from Pew Research that shows a steep decline over the past few years in Americans’ faith in science as a force for good, as well as a recent study that shows a sizeable percentage of Americans still believe in biblical creationism (or it’s watered-down version, “intelligent design”). That study also …