Big Gadget, This Is Little Tool. We've Got Ourselves A Situation

[elfs]

I just heard a blurb on Marketplace, the "business" show that frequently lives side-by-side with NPR's All Things Considered, that tomorrow's show will have an article entitled Scientists, businessmen, and evolution. I want to reserve judgment, but the audio blurb that followed the announcement was a woman's voice saying only this: "If you question Darwinism that's it, your career is over."

This does not fill me with hope.

Comments

[rhonan.livejournal.com]

Well, it should. Anyone who recognizes the value of evolutionary biology would recognize that it is the only side of the debate that has furnished marketable products. Aside from propaganda and trinkets for their side, what has creationism produced that is of any value in the market?

Seriously, you run a business, do you want people who bank on science to produce new products, or do you want people who refuse to even look at that science because of their personal superstition? Yeah, if I ran a business, I'd fire on the spot anyone who rejected valid science.

I'd like to see the mainstream press, and NPR is not mainstream, run more articles that focused on the fact that real business does not put any money on creationism, or its bastard child, Intelligent Design. No, the advances of modern pharmacology, medicine, and plant genetics is all based on the same science as evolutionary biology, if not evolutionary biology itself.

[starbog.livejournal.com]

Indeed, discouraging.

"Scientists, businessmen, and evolution"

Hmmm...I wonder why there aren't similar shows out there entitled "Scientists, businessmen, and thermodynamics", or "Scientists, businessmen, and Astrophysics", given how the cretinists would have us junk the entirety of modern science just to satisfy their lust for mythologies?

[starbog.livejournal.com]

They don't because they're scared of giving "offense". It seems vast swathes of the press (of all political stripes mind you) are blurring the lines between fact and belief.

[scyllacat.livejournal.com]

Drat, I keep trying to play this naively, but the line really bothers me.

By what do we mean "question"? More importantly, by what do we mean "Darwinism"? Ok, sorry, I stop like Yoda talking now.

I quest for coffee, ... then I quest my local station for this show, and hope it doesn't nauseate me.