It's easy to talk within Christian circles about there always being faith behind doubt... How you have to believe one thing to doubt something else. Smarter men than me have spent time showing that the process by which we arrive at so-called "values" and so-called "facts" are essentially the same (Newbiggin does it well in "The Gospel in a Pluralist Society"). That the supposed divide between public indisputable "facts" and private whatever-works-for-you-as-long-as-you-don't-push-them-on-the-public-square "values" is a false one.
The trouble is, these kinds of arguments are tough to distill into soundbites, or to write on the back of a beer mat down the pub! Most casual conversations don't provide the opportunity to lay out the framework and assumptions, and then start to highlight the inconsistencies or over-reaching often done in the name of science.
Speaking for myself, I'm not as good as I'd like to be at chipping away at this particular "defeater belief". So it's nice that the Onion are gently poking fun...
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