The Los Alamos High School teachers were told last year that they could no longer teach evolution in their classes. Pretty soon dogma will be all that is allowed to be taught. One way to eliminate competition...
--Doug On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Marcus G. Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Douglas Roberts wrote: > >> I suppose that when the RWRDDA movement (Right Wing Religious Dumbing >> Down of America) movement becomes sufficiently intolerable to more of our >> scientific community, additional folks will begin to speak out on the >> subject. Perhaps if we get a Creationist Vice President the process will >> accelerate! >> >> Speaking of Mavericks, there's an entertaining Nova called "Hunting the > Hidden Dimension" starring among others Benoit Mandelbrot, and SFI's > Geoffrey West, James Brown, and Brian Enquist. In particular, the program > notes how the mathematics establishment regarded Mandelbrot's research as > not being an important contribution. There are other sources of dogma > besides from religious folks. Dogma also can be advanced when scientists > have their prominence threatened by competing approaches... > > Marcus > > >
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