11.21.08
WTF moment in Texas
By Richard B. Hoppe I’ve just started reading Kenneth Miller’s Only A Theory in which he is attempting to make the case that the current assault on science, orchestrated by organizations like the Disco ‘Tute, is a “threat to our ‘scientific soul’ – the healthy skepticism and rational respect for truth that has fueled our remarkable scientific advances†(from the dust cover copy).
The greatest threat to the scientific ‘soul’ (? strange usage for a scientist) comes not from Texas fundamentalists but from science itself. Whatever the specifics of the Texas case, the public is not required to accept at face value the claims for reductionist evolutionism as scientific. Darwinism has corrupted the methodology of science, and it is not use lambasting fundamentalists to avoid this realization.