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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... things that science has done, and they are impressed and overawed.” Whether deliberately or inadvertently, scientists have been guilty of the error of overselling. This is evident in television advertising where the white-smocked ...
... things. Madison Avenue continues to dream up new gimmicks and sales techniques to whet the buyer's appetite for devices, services, foods, clothing, and recreations that are new. The “in” thing, the “latest” look, the “with-it ...
... things. First, origins can occur only once. They are not repeatable. Only one event can qualify as the “original” event. An origin stands alone between nothing and something. Secondly, it follows that origins cannot be verified as to ...
... things that appear foolish only to fools ― the body movements of a symphony conductor during the finale of a great musical masterpiece, the mating activities of birds and animals, or the dress and appearance of a surgeon during surgery ...
... things was an “accident” only in the mathematical-probability sense that a lot of time and energy were required. In fact, a great many, if not all, scientists involved in the study of evolution would agree that, given proper conditions ...