February 13, 2009

Science Is the Opposite of Faith

To the Editor:

I agree wholeheartedly with Frederick Grinnell ("Intelligent Design or Intelligible Design?," The Chronicle Review, January 9) that "ID has no place in science education." However, we part company over his assertion that the "scientific attitude" constitutes a "kind of faith." It most assuredly does not. Professor Grinnell's claim, albeit linguistically creative, that science comprises "faith in intelligible design — faith that nature's patterns and structures