More and more ordinary people – not pundits, columnists or politicians – are speaking up in defence of the values of the Enlightenment. This time it’s Adam Bosworth: “It is time to say that facts are what matter, not faith, that human progress is accomplished through unfettered use of reason and inquiry and tolerance and discussion and debate, not through intolerant and irrational acts of terror or edicts.”
(Via Loosely Coupled.)