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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... position over that of William Jennings Bryan. It is amazing, ironic and regrettable that it should be necessary at this late date to once again sound a clear call for freedom of thought. Even worse, the call must be sounded in the field ...
... position from that which science represents in today's technological society? What is the difference in treatment between that accorded Galileo and Velikovsky? Or Copernicus and Shockley? Are the forces to protect status quo within ...
... position of teaching evolution exclusively in public schools to explain the origin of the universe, life and man. In the popular press, these folks were lumped together and called scientists. In contrast, the vast majority of those ...
... position so slowly as to not be noticed. Although he has agreed in private conversation with me that there is no validity to the Big Bang theory, we can expect only a gradual shift in position.” Allen then outlined a probable pattern of ...
... position. Guess what science textbooks say about the origin of life? They say that about three billion years ago, some dead amino acid-like molecules (the exact types are greatly debated) got together accidentally in some pools and ...