Letters to the Editor
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"The goal of science...
...is to gradually overcome deeply embedded superstition."
Since when does science have a goal?
Science is merely a systematic acquisition of facts about the world gained through observation and experimentation. It has no goal.
Scientists, on the other hand, can have goals. And in Burton's case, he has a stated goal. He should say, "My goal is to gradually overcome deeply embedded superstition."
And what superstitions are these? Well from his article, in which he mentions fundamentalism and Pentacostalism, it's pretty easy to tell what beliefs he considers to be superstition: that there is a God who revealed himself through Jesus Christ.
Peace,
Xy