[Phys-L] Re: god friendly science

[John M Clement <clement@HAL-PC.ORG>]

This is very sad because the "counterenlightenment" perceives science
as being god-unfriendly.  They are reacting just like the
anti-Galileans.  Then never realized that Galileo and Newton after him
were profoundly religious, and that many of the supporters of these
men were also profoundly religious.  The turf war is not just about
rewriting science, but rather forcing their theological position on
others, namely the "fundamentalist" view.

These same people would come down on the Roman Catholic church for
restricting Galileo, while not realizing they are doing the same to
others.  It is truly ironic that the RC church now supports science
and evolution, while the Protestants who came out of the Reformation
have a group that does not.  Incidentally I have seen Moslem
literature that supports cosmology and evolution.  I have a friend who
claims the best instruction he had on evolution was by a nun in a
Catholic HS.

Meanwhile the other developed nations are laughing at us, and our
supply of scientists and engineers is drying up.  Kansas will not be a
scientific center of the US.  Even in TX evolution is in the standards
and alternatives are not, so there may be hope yet.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX (where evolution is taught in the schools)

> From Another list. Posted with permission.
> Bob Zannelli
> ======================
> "They want to rewrite the rules of science," cries Alan  Leshner of
> AAAS.
> Well Du-uh! Is he just realizing now what the culture war is about?
> War is
> about seizing turf and holding it. In this case the turf is science
> itself. The
> CounterEnlightenment is out to seize science and redefine it in
> Aristotelian terms so that it becomes god-friendly again.
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