I know, I know, the Times is a commie rag. But science isn't left or right, and there's nothing patriotic about ignorance. This is a good article.
'Not all of the champions of the modern synthesis have been as open as [Julian] Huxley is in acknowledging the religious aspects of their devotion to evolutionary biology, but most of them, especially those who reject religious and philosophical approaches to the problem of human duty and destiny, manage to smuggle in by way of simile and metaphor the elements of meaning and value that their formal philosophy of nature and natural science excludes from consideration.'
"Despite this, such scientists have no foundation for their reaction agaisnt pointlessness other than the not unworthy and intuitive sense that the world should be built as it is; embedded in the Universe are not only neutrons but such edicts as, to echo Chesterton, 'Thou shalt not steal.'"
Simon Conway Morris, Life's Solution, pp. 314-315, (Cambridge University Press, 2003). Dr. Morris is professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Cambridge. A fellow of the Royal Society, his work on Cambrian soft-bodied faunas figured prominently in Stephen Jay Gould's Wonderful Life.
Thanks for the ping...I just finished reading the entire article, and it was interesting...
I get the feeling that some folks think that coming up with new and better scientific innovations, which will create more wealth, is somehow a bad thing....creating wealth is a bad thing?...Why?
Forget the wealth part, what about the advantages that new and better scientific innovations, will, as this article states, improve society for all of us...applications in medicine alone will benefit all of us, whether now or in the future...I would not want to be living in a society, which practices medicine as it was practiced 50yrs ago, and am sad that I will not be around 50yrs from now, to see the benefits of research and innovation in medicine...but I sure want my children, and my future grandchildren, and so on down the line, to be able to benefit from research and innovation in the field of medicine..
And on to the matter of what students in other countries are learning, and how our students will fare, when in competition with them....I think this is quite an important issue...students from other countries eagerly come to the USA for their college educations, if they can get in to those college they have applied to...they are competing with American students all the time...will they return home better educated than our American students, whose own lack of credentials disallow them from entering those very same universities?...
When my son graduated from Cornell(yeah, I know, I am waiting for all the booers and hissers to appear), with his degree in Applied Physics Engineering, I was shocked to see the makeup of those receiving this particular degree..virtually everyone was either from a foreign country, or if they were Americans, they were almost all Asians, except for my own son, and one or two of his best friends...I had to ask myself, why was this...do Asians tend to concentrate more on math and sciences, and leave religion to the parents and their church?...I dont know, but am wondering...and women receiving this particular degree?...very, very few...I can only remember one or two ladies receiving this degree...why is this?...do we really think that the women cannot learn this discipline?...this was 10yrs ago, I would be interested to see the makeup of those earning this degree currently...
Whether we like it or not, more and more countries are providing excellent science education in their schools, and their students are taking advantage of it...they then come here for their university educations(as the USA still has the best universities), but they are returning home to their own countries, and putting what they have learned here, to advantage back home...
And no, I dont think that I am over-reacting...
Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists
The essay at the above link has a great description of the transition between reptiles and mammals.
If nonstandard geology or biology were true, one could them to find more oil than the deluded followers of uniformatism and Darwinism can.
Hint: I'm not investing in a creationist oil prospecting company. Neither is Shell, Exxon, BP, etc.
Glenn Morton is a famous example of a YECer who saw the light.
This is really silly and tiresome. Does anyone seriously believe that we creationists don't understand and appreciate genetics and adaptability of organisms? The fact that organisms are adaptable does not prove evolutionary descent.
Indeed, it was my rigorous education in organic chemistry and biological science that made me realize that life simply cannot organize itself. It's just foolish to imagine that something as complex and vulnerable as a DNA spiral can self organize, protect itself from the elements without any reason for doing so, and then reproduce itself. Experiments to replicate this, even under the most optimistic conditions, all failed and were largely abandoned in the 1990's.
Evolutionists seem so desperate to deny creationists and ID'ers a forum and to debate the science. It is a dead giveaway about whose "science" is really the house of cards.
There are three kinds of escalating lies: Ordinary lies; damn lies; and, statistics. This is the latter.
To trot out such a lame statistic serves only to discredit the author.
How many companies were hiring scientists prior to the state of Kansas making their minor change in curriculum?
Science isn't left or right? Buwahahahaha
I work in industrial R&D in FL. I can speak to experience that it is very difficult to get research scientists with families to move to this state because of the poor reputation, nationally, of the schools here, in particular how well science is taught. We've actually hired people to work here who leave their families up north just because of the school systems. If you don't have a reasonablely strong elementary and high school education in place, you simply have a hard time attracting research organizations and talent to your area.
Nothing like hyperbole in an editorial. ;-)
Witness what has been piled on Ann Coulter lately!
(Or just plain BOO!)
"The end of civilization as we know it - if SO many people as ignorant of the PROPER way Evolution works!"