Take that, fundies!

3/24/2009 | 4:07 PM | Evolved Rationalist

Remember those parents who let their children die because they'd rather pray to an imaginary god and trust in faith rather than science?

New Scientist rips them a new asshole (or rips them an asshole as wide as a mainstream science magazine can) here.

They saved the best for last:

Nearly 150 years after Darwin unveiled his theory of evolution, we have yet to grasp one of its most unsettling implications: having diseased children is as natural as having healthy ones. Every new life is a gamble, an experiment with novel gene combinations that could be a brilliant success or a tragic failure.
Thanks to technology, we are no longer entirely at the mercy of this callous process. Rather than regarding this ability with suspicion, we should be celebrating it and encouraging its use. Instead, we continue to allow children be born with terrible diseases because of our collective ignorance and superstition.