The ICR loonies are supposed to be scientists? Real science is an investigation of nature. It has a spirit of inquiry. It isn't what you studied, it's what you do.
Ernst Mayr, the last survivor of the intellectual giants who developed the modern version of the theory of evolution, turns 100 today.Hard to believe that a graduate biologist, with post-doc work, has never heard of this guy. Anyway, continuing:"Among the great evolutionary biologists of this century," Mayr was called by Harvard sociobiologist and author Edward O. Wilson -- as well as "one of the best writers" on the topic.
In biology, "everybody stands in some way in (Mayr's) shadow," said Professor F. Clark Howell, co-director of the Laboratory for Human Evolutionary Studies at UC Berkeley, who first met Mayr in 1946. "He's done a huge amount of work and had a great influence."
His stature has also earned him some enmity: To creationists, Mayr is their No. 1 scientific foe -- "the unquestioned dean of the modern evolutionary establishment," claims an online site run by the Institute for Creation Research in Santee, in San Diego County.It's a pretty good article.
Good one!