one of their own said...

In line with the previous post, here is a passage that Mr. Dawkins, Mr. Dylan-Haynes, and all other members of the scientific community:

Find a scientific man who proposes to get along without any metaphysics -- not by any means every man who holds the ordinary reasonings of metaphysicians in scorn -- and you have found one whose doctrines are thoroughly vitiated by the crude and uncriticized metaphysics with which they are packed. We must philosophize, said the great naturalist Aristotle -- if only to avoid philosophizing. Every man of us has a metaphysics, and has to have one; and it will influence his life greatly. Far better, then, that that metaphysics should be criticized and not be allowed to run loose. (Charles S. Peirce, Collected Papers 1.129)

Spoken by a man who knew both the library and the lab.