"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 ."
"raising science on a pedestal `` - it 's merely reciting the obvious ."
"which was quickly dismissed anyway with the false analogy of comparing evolution to aeronautical engineering ."