On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Akira Kawasaki wrote: > UN. Yet, in Dover, PA, a town much like Dayton, TN, the school > board voted to require that intelligent design be taught > alongside evolution. The school board will lose in court, but > we must ask ourselves why science has been so spectacularly > unsuccessful in explaining such obvious truths to people.
LOL! That's just too good, because Park will never know. In fact he himself is a perfect example of the "dishonest skeptic" problem that can turn audiences against science. It's just too ironic that the situation is now reversed from when T. H. Huxley defeated Bishop Wilberforce in the famous Darwinism debate... by pointing out that the Bishop was criticizing a subject without first studying it, and then soiling a serious scientific discussion by bringing in RHETORICAL PLOYS. Wilberforce: "I would like to ask Professor Huxley whether it was on his grandfather's or his grandmother's side that the ape ancestry comes in." Huxley: "A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling, it would be a man of restless and versatile intellect, who, not content with success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric..." It says much about the current state of science that the physics community doesn't recoil in revulsion at one of their number who always fills his magazine columns with emotion-based spin tactics. If contemporary scientists found Mr. Park's behavior repugnant, scientists certainly would be in a better position to teach the general public what "critical thinking" means. (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 206-789-0775 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
