No Time for Science
Bethell, Tom
losophy. But they do not have the right to teach it as though it were science. In science, all theories--including Darwinian evo- lution- must be tested against the evidence. Since Gould knows...
...Absolutely TOM BETHELL is a regular contributor to The American Spectator...
...So they remain in textbooks, even though no reputable scientists would stand behind them, and our children are taught misinformation in the name of a "higher truth," because as the main speakers at the seminar knew, as every educated person knows, evolution must be true...
...But the journal- ,~ ntists and ists failed to report this t~ The evolutionists a r 4 ~ let io Wash- asked about Jonathan Wells's new book, which 0m0t6 t h e fishes evolved from a common ancestor...
...Scott jumps in with more disinformation: "[N]o one would doubt," she says, "that embryos are more similar than the mature bodies...
...At the "press opportunity" in the lunch hour the speakers are asked to comment on the growing scientific-not religious--body of knowledge that questions dogmatic Darwinian evolutionary theory...
...Here is Chester Finn, gadfly of the public education elite, firmly ensconced in the AdvancementofScience...
...N educators .[ i e 0 t 0 o to California, North and South Carolina, F's for North Dakota, Ohio, Wyoming, and teachin 0 oft iutien, |0m The speakers include two emeritus professors, Lawrence Lemer of Cal State Long Beach and Paul Gross of the University of Vir~- ginia, as well as the seemingly ~;r omnipresent exponent-of evolutionary enlightenment, Eugenic Scott, who explains that evolution is "like Mozart...
...The misbosom of the establishment--the halls of the American Association for the W hat's this...
...Not true, by the way...
...But they are still used in textbooks as evidence that humans and 27...
...For too long the debate about evolution has assumed "facts" that aren't tme...
...Your life wouldn't be as rich if you didn't understand the concept of evolution...
...Good sciee...
...In science, all theories--including Darwinian evolution- must be tested against the evidence...
...It's time to clear away the lies that obstruct popular discussion of evolution, and insist that theories conform to the evidence...
...They are good propaganda, however...
...Shouldn't this be a part of our children's curriculum...
...IP~ not, came the answer...
...This is a reference to the famous photographs from the 195o's--now also known to be faked--that supposedly demonstrated why dark moths became more widespread in industrial England...
...N :~i...
...Since Gould knows that the real embryological evidence contradicts the faked drawings in biology textbooks, why doesn't he take a more active role in cleaning up science education...
...tt lhell documents the manyfalse and misleading claims about evolution that are taught in almost all standard high school and college biology books...
...Apparently, but as the moths don't naturally rest on tree trunks, the photos are of zero scientific value...
...In other words, it's time to do science as it's supposed to be done...
...the pigmentation camouflaged them as the tree trunks they rested on became discolored by pollution...
...The American Spectator 9 December 2000 / January 2 o o i representations and omissions I've examined here are just a small sampling...
...What about the moths on the trees...
...You get a better picture if you glue the moth to the tree," says Scott...
...In a lot of subjects," he interjects, "we do like students to be taught the conrevealing exchange...
...In fact, the opposite is sometimes true: The embryos of different kinds of sea urchin, to give one example, vary dramatically, though their mature forms closely resemble one another...
...There are many more...
...ltkOS a back troversies...
...It has been known, for instance, for over one hundred years that Haeckel's drawings depicting the similarities of vertebrate embryos were faked...
...He is delivering a public paddling to those recalcitrant school boards who have not been eager enough instilling liberal orthodoxy-- seat as in this case, evolution--in their pupils...
...Perhaps, but is it good science...
...Kansas received an F-minus, for "removing all references to evolution...
...The "seminar" is entitled "Good Science, Bad Science: Teaching Evolution in the States," and the audience--mostly sympathetic media and professional educators-are given a report grading the states: A's for others...
...We have no time to teach [students] the conflicts," admonishes Gross...
...the evolutionists are asked...
...But they do not have the right to teach it as though it were science...
...Finn ;" . d i appears nonplused by the dogmatism of his col- ~J league...
...the Kansas school board had simply refused to tell students that Darwin's theory explains all major features of living things, for which it deserves credit...
Vol. 33 • December 2000 • No. 10
