Science but Not ScientistsThe historic Science Textbook Struggle -- a worldwide battle about the origin of the universe, life, and man -- erupted without warning. It caught the scientific illuminati completely by surprise. Why? Because science textbooks had become filled with wild, unbelievable stories about the beginning of everything. And those tales were simply not scientific! The universe starting with a Big Bang, life arising out of a soup of lifeless amino-acids, humans produced by apes . . . those myths had only replaced ancient Greek mythology and were being passed off as scientific truths! Wernher von Braun, father of Americas space program, writes in the Foreword: Vernon Grose, in tracing out in Science But Not Scientists his personal involvement in the vortex of these two forces, illustrates one more time the humanity of scientists their likelihood of being just as prejudiced and bigoted as anyone untrained in science. He properly calls for objectivity rather than scientific consensus. He rightly urges that message rather than messenger should be scrutinized and tested for validity. Science will be the richer and humanity the ultimate beneficiary by heeding this clarion call. |
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... alternative explanations to fully explain the findings of science. Exactly the inverse of that argument was proposed in California in 1969. It was on the basis of this reversed analogy that my first public statement on 13 November 1969 ...
... alternatives to what scientific elitists have already decided is “fact.” The sorry episode of the Piltdown Man illustrates how easily the body politic of science can be swayed to believe a hoax ― if it fits a particularly attractive and ...
... single description, with no alternative views presented. Secondly, only a small percentage of all children will ever study the accounts in greater depth. This means that these descriptions ultimately become the nonscientific public's 10.
... alternative ideas about the origin of the universe were rejected prior to accepting this one? On what basis were they rejected? Upon what data (provable, repeatable observations) is the picture based? How long has this picture been ...
... alternative ― that dead matter produced life all by itself. The microbes that might have drifted in from outer space are called “panspermia.” They supposedly could travel from one planetary system to another, propelled by the pressure ...