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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... issue much larger than any single individual who participated in it. It was in Frank Robinson's drugstore in Dayton, Tennessee one day in the spring of 1925 that some of John Scopes' friends gathered to sip nickel lemonades and plot his ...
... issue in the 1925 Scopes Trial, it was that evolution could not be taught in science classrooms because Biblical creation had exclusive rights that were threatened by evolution. Now there is no possible way to truthfully state that the ...
... issue or their frequent policy of publishing only one side of an argument in any sense a modern equivalent to forcing recantation? Perhaps some of these questions may become more meaningful as the issue around which this book is written ...
... issues or had reacted on any other information than reported accounts. Public response to news ― regardless of medium ― would ... issue ― scientific interpretation of observed data. While such polarization could have been somewhat valid xxii.
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