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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... idea that it does take specific training to understand a particular field of study, the Church, on the other hand, went a step further in the Middle Ages. It demanded that the source material; i.e., the Bible, not be read under penalty ...
... idea that Darwinian evolution provides any explanation for origins of the universe, life, and man. I contend that the general theory of evolution breaks down at that point ― not because of mechanistic inadequacies but because no ...
... idea is based really on the work of one man ― Edwin P. Hubble ― an American astronomer who, about forty years ago, postulated the idea that the universe was expanding. When studying galaxies, Hubble noticed that the color of each one ...
... idea. There is no prospect in the foreseeable future that either of these two ideas will be able to be resolved on any basis other than belief.7 While the age of the computer has enabled scientists to speed up much of the calculation ...
... idea. Computer models of supernova explosions have recently been developed that describe how such phenomena might have occurred in conflict with the Big Bang explosion and expansion concept.10 One of the most interesting developments ...