On Monday, January 18, 2021 at 9:05:18 AM UTC-6 medinuclear wrote:
> Big science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom ... > What they forgot is that every generation has its Rebel! That rebel, Ben > Stein (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) travels the world on his quest, and learns > an awe-inspiring truth … that educators and scientists are being ridiculed, > denied tenure and even fired – for the crime of merely believing that there > might be evidence of design in nature, and that perhaps life is not just > the result of accidental, random chance. To which Ben Says: Enough! And > then gets busy. NOBODY messes with Ben. > > Philip Benjamin > That is good for a laugh. Ben Stein is an actor, he has no scientific credentials. He is also an arch right winger who supports anything that comes out of Faux News. 10 or 12 years ago he went on a silly crusade to "expose" how academics were losing positions for espousing creationism. If you are on the faculty of a biology department and espouse such things it should not be surprising you are refused tenure. In physics if somebody started to teach aether theory and rejected relativity much the same would happen. It could not happen any other way. This is not about censorship. First off, the first Amendment is not about how any organization has to allow anything said or published. It is just about how the Federal government cannot legislate against certain speech that is not meant to incite violence or slander. So this does mean you are not free to yell FIRE in a theater or to accuse somebody of things falsely. It does not mean that a scientific journal cannot reject a paper by some wannabe physicist who has their great unified field theory they are certain of. Get on Facebook to see tons of that crap. Knowledge is something distilled through a sieve, or better put a Bayesian regression that narrows things down as with the game of 20 questions. Thing that fail, well ---- they simply fail and are discarded. Religion has failed utterly in allowing us to understand the world. The weltanschauung of religion has failed miserably; its track record of matching what is measured and knows is crummy. This includes biological evolution. It also fails with the whole idea of there being some designer. The Intelligent Design and Irreducible complexity arguments have failed the tests. LC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/49241a55-c8de-4b55-9b74-06f13f7902fbn%40googlegroups.com.
