Nuggets from Cosmos—What’s Wrong with Fundamentalism?

Hatred of fundamentalism is either ill-informed or part of a deliberate smear campaign against biblical Christianity. There is nothing wrong with fundamentalism in itself. It all depends on the fundamentals one believes. Every mathematician is a fundamentalist. Two plus two is four, always was, and always will be. It would be absurd to say, “You fundamentalist mathematicians are unreasonable. Why can’t we let two plus two be five every Thursday?” Of course, if that were the case, thereafter, bridges, buildings, etc., built on Thursdays would collapse, all of the airplanes in flight would crash, etc., etc. It is not “dogmatic fundamentalism” to be unwilling to compromise the laws of physics and chemistry or the rules of mathematics. Then why is Christian fundamentalism maligned? Only if the Bible on which it is founded is proved to be wrong. What is certainly wrong is to lump all “faiths” together, ignoring the vast differences between. To do so betrays a deep bias that is disappointing when found in those who claim to speak for science and for rationality.