"Pointing out some of the achievements of science which could not have been accomplished in any other way , is not `` raising science on a pedestal `` - it 's merely reciting the obvious ."
"Straw man . I am not attacking the achievements of science . I am attacking the notion that you have that scientists are exempt from the catalogue of influences that affect everyone else ; with only the slightest admission of a tiny possibility of cultural influence - which was quickly dismissed anyway with the false analogy of comparing evolution to aeronautical engineering ."
"Pointing out some of the achievements of science which could not have been accomplished"
"catalogue of influences that affect everyone else"