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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... asked whether or not he had discussed evolution, he answered, “Well, we reviewed for final exams, as best as I can remember.” The textbook that he had used, Hunter's Civic Biology, contained the theory of evolution. So John Scopes ...
... asked. Secondly, it masks the imponderable nature of the origin of the universe in a cloak of smug, scientific certainty. The school child is thereby conditioned to become dogmatic. The mystery, intrigue and enigma that have ...
... asked so far. Not many answers have been offered to those questions. That is how science really is ― many more questions than answers. Every time an answer is found, it produces lots more new questions. That is why an inquiring mind is ...
Vernon L. Grose. Questions raised by reading science textbooks, including some asked in this chapter, can be classified or grouped as follows: 1. Unanswerable questions ― (Example: “What was the chemical composition of the first living ...
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