I notice that this Media bias site has a feature to allow for corrections via email to the editor. I have just sent the following email.
Dear Editor
I am writing with respect to Media Bias Fact Check’s assignment of “mild pseudoscience” to the Biologos.org organization. The language used includes " Overall, we rate the Biologos Foundation a mild pseudoscience website based on ascribing evolution to the hand and workings of God, which is not known or provable".
I am not connected to Biologos in any official way, although I have written articles and made comments on their web site. I am a doctoral level biochemist with a strong scientific reputation, and also a Christian, who affirms (as does Biologos) the truth of evolution by natural selection. I happen to know that Biologos as an organization, as well as all the current and past officers and staff of Biologos do not accept any doctrine that could be identified as pseudoscience by any reasonable criteria (see below). The organization was founded by Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health for the past 12 years, an acknowledged leader in genetics research, as well as one of the strongest voices in the nation for scientific integrity and research. Dr. Collins and a host of other high level scientists continue to support the work of Biologos in countering the real pseudoscience that is so prevalent among certain sectors of American Christianity.
The problem with your assessment is that the reason given is not actually scientific and itself falls under the rubric of pseudoscience. No statement related to God is subject to scientific knowledge nor can any such be provable. The only premise by which your final words make any sense would be under an assumption of scientism, a philosophical view rejected by the majority of scientists and one which itself betrays a non-scientific, religious bias, namely that knowledge of all things, including the existence of God must be subject to scientific verification. If your organization holds this view, then your own bias must be recognized and labeled as pseudoscience.
The Biologos organization, and all Christians (such as myself) who consider themselves to be evolutionary creationists, accept no concepts or ideas that run counter to any aspect of mainstream scientific consensus. The fact that we also believe in God as the creator of all things, including the laws of science (which includes evolution) has no bearing on our scientific work, thought or activity.
Thank you for reconsidering your assessment of the Biologos organization as a “mild pseudoscience” promoting body, and I look forward to your correction of this error.
Seymour Garte Ph.D.
I will keep the forum informed of any answer I might get.