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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... fact that he smoked cigarettes and danced. When Scopes was contacted at a nearby tennis court and urged to join his friends at the drug store, he was really uncertain as to whether he had even taught evolution. Some of his friends ...
... facts” of science, but also about scientists as people. When a person becomes concerned about how origins are discussed in ... fact that they were not seems to emphasize that they may never be subject to universal resolution. As all good ...
... facts” remain. Regarding the so-called scientific method, entire books have been written to attempt to define it ... fact.” The sorry episode of the Piltdown Man illustrates how easily the body politic of science can be swayed to ...
... fact ― that science produces knowledge of origins ― is both subtle and deceitful. Starting with the origin of the ... facts” which a colorful picture of the “Big Bang” depicts must be charged primarily against textbook publishers and ...
... fact, the Law of Scientific Dogmatism is once more confirmed in accounts of the origin of life. Let me illustrate this dogmatism with an actual incident. In 1972, a proposal was made to change a statement about life's beginning in ...