Not only does Mims have many of the requisite credentials for the job, it is no fun defending the conduct of those at Scientific American who gave him the boot. Having discovered that Mims is a creationist, the magazine's staff went on to ask him some obviously inappropriate questions about his views concerning abortion, subsequently and inexcusably killed off "The Amateur Scientist" column, and, judging from media reports that I've read, continue to manifest the alacrity of an ostrich under predatory attack in defending the decision to let Mims go.
Forrest Mims does not need me to toss encomiums in his path. Ever since he was fired, he has received an outpouring of unqualified support. Everyone from the American Civil Liberties Union to the American Association for the Advancement of Science apparently believes that dropping Mims as a columnist is nothing short of invidious religious discrimination.
When religion and science ...
