Dr. Richard Sternberg
Posted on 12/16/2006 12:22:28 PM PST by editor-surveyor
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A new report from the U.S. House of Representatives has condemned officials at the Smithsonian Institution for imposing a religious test on scientists who work there. And it suggests their attacks on a scientist who just edited an article on intelligent design are just the tip of the iceberg of an industry-wide fear of anything that suggests man might not have come from a puddle of sludge.
Dr. Richard Sternberg |
The report, which cited a "strong religious and political component" in the dispute, was prompted by a complaint from Dr. Richard Sternberg, who holds biology doctorates from Binghamton and Florida International universities and has served as a research associate at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
It was prepared for U.S. Rep. Mark Souder, R-Ind., chairman of the subcommittee of criminal justice, drug policy and human resources, and easily confirmed Sternberg's harassment and discrimination allegations that his managers criticized him, created a hostile work environment for him, and now have demoted him because of the article, which he didn't even write.
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The web page you copied and added your own selective quote marks to speaks for itself. Isn't Google wonderful?
And this is not a case of bigotry, plain and simple.
Yes, genetics was my specialty.
Most of us in biology understand both genetics and evolution and have no basic problem with the theoretical underpinnings of either.
Is this guy?
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In her autobiography, Mary explains that through her whole career she was "impelled by curiosity." She writes that other archaeologists should try to satisfy their curiosities by hunting for more concrete evidence, rather than spending all their time formulating crazy hypotheses based on a few random scraps of bone. In her words, "Small pieces of the record have been preserved and can sometimes be found, but it cannot be stressed too strongly that they are indeed small parts and what we uncover may give us a biased view of the picture as a whole."
It's understandable that there are emotional tensions involved, given recent history, but I want that allegation supported, or retracted.
For someone who supposedly prides himself on ehtical behavior, I'm not terribly impressed with your response.
Well, if our homepages risk random deletion, we are called Marxists etc that is not the epitome of welcome.
Read the thread. I gave you the link.
I'll try to be even-handed here as possible. The smithsonian scientists are evolution in action, dinosaurs soon to be fossilized : as gas in your car. Noah was a pakistani farmer who got washed out to sea during a hurricane on his 3 layer log raft. A cubit = 18", 15 cubits = a 22' deep storm surge. His descendents, sitting around a campfire in the plains of shinar, jazzed up this old family story into a myth. One of THEIR descendents was a young boy named ABRAM. As to our lord Jesus' crucifiction, it was GOD the father's final lesson : self-sacrifice = creation. You see, GOD was crucified in much the same way by the "24 elders" before the BIG BANG = creation of the universe. Where many become confused is that science is the x vector, religion is the y vector, in the graph of life. Why not see it as the wave-particle duality of energy or the quantity-quality duality of math?
New findings reported today shed light on why, after three billion years of mostly single-celled evolution, these large animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record.
This thread doesn't indicate that scientists believed more that single celled evolution occurred before the Cambrian explosion but that no evidence for it was found. It is clear that they believe the evolution occurred during that time AFTER the earth thawed out, within a few million years.
So tell me, from you perspective, why did God make such a great diversity of animals appear 540 million years ago and modern humans only in the last 100k or so?
"Lack of evidence of diversity is not proof of a lack of diversity." Nor is lack of fossils proof of non-existance; it's just lack of fossils. It's just what the fossil record currently shows. It doesn't mean it's an accurate representation of what actually happened.
OK, maybe we need to start over.
I thought you were asking me to defend "darwins dilema" of how to explain the Cambrian explosion, but you almost seem to be trying to defend it yourself.
And it suggests their attacks on a scientist who just edited an article on intelligent design ...
It was prepared for U.S. Rep. Mark Souder, R-Ind., chairman of the subcommittee of criminal justice, drug policy and human resources, and easily confirmed Sternberg's harassment and discrimination allegations that his managers criticized him, created a hostile work environment for him, and now have demoted him because of the article, which he didn't even write.
He didn't write it, he edited it. And since when is editing something a *bad* reflection on someone or some organization? Editing is just that-editing; it's not him being about his religion. How is editing a paper a religious activity? Talk about thought police.
If the Smithsonian hadn't made an issue of it, it wouldn't be a bad reflection on them because hardly anybody would have ever known about it. Instead they make a big issue over it, now it's out there, and it makes THEM look bad.
Plus he wasn't writing about creationism. You really need to read this article (again).
So employers get to dictate to an employee what he can do in his private life? I know a lot of companies that would be glad to hear that. I guess someone failed to tell him that he sold his soul when accepted a job at the Smithsonian.
Are you saying that Patrick Henry is a scientist, and further, are you saying that this is not an isolated incident.
we are called Marxists etc that is not the epitome of welcome.
People are called all kinds of things on this forum. It goes with the territory. If you're saying that you're being called a Marxist simply because, as a scientist, you understand evolution, then I'd like a cite for that also.
Read the thread. I gave you the link.
It doesn't work that way. You made the allegation, you support it...or you need to retract it. It's that simple.
Half of my training in grad school, and for my Ph.D. exams, included specialties in human osteology and fossil man. That's six years of study at the grad level, resulting in a Ph.D., in this field.
That enough for you?
And your training in this field is...? What?
Your background, which lets you tell working professionals much more advanced than I am how to do their jobs, is what?
Or did you just stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night and read Answers in Guinness in your spare time?
You laid bare the challenge, now lets see your answer.
Her training?
One of many that think that the bible is a textbook.
Thanks for the ping!
And obviously you're training is in clairvoyance. Why don't you at least let her answer Coyoteman's post before you disparage her. But tha's the name of the game though, isn't it...disparagement. Ironically, both you and Coyoteman have penned the QED to her point, which completely went over your heads.
No surprise there though....
That's cute.
Me: Read the thread. I gave you the link.
You: It doesn't work that way. You made the allegation, you support it...or you need to retract it. It's that simple.
Perhaps I should read it for you? Since I post on the crevo threads mainly for the lukrers, thank you for making a point for me.
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