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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... Textbook Struggle”) was a replay of that offered earlier in Tennessee. In fact, the issue was precisely reversed! In place of the Biblical account being universally taught in the ... science classroom won a great victory. Textbooks xvii.
Vernon L. Grose. indoctrination in the science classroom won a great victory. Textbooks will never again be the same. More than forty years after the end of his trial, Scopes published in his memoirs a remarkable statement that I believe ...
... science, but also about scientists as people. When a person becomes concerned about how origins are discussed in science textbooks, as I have been recently, a number of unresolved but basic philosophic issues arise: The proper role of ...
... Science Textbook Struggle, I also learned much about American politics, public reaction to news media, the educational process, and the complexities of preparing textbooks. Most of all, my understanding of human behavior on the societal ...
... textbooks read, “It is widely believed by scientists...” By that time, perhaps only black and white pictures will be ... science textbooks are in error by presenting mythology rather than science in discussion of the origin of the ...